My fair share
Temporary or more structural: is it the return of the price/wage spiral? We had almost forgotten the term: the strike (or its threat) is back. In the United States, agricultural machinery [...]
Desperately seeking lorry drivers
Should we really fear energy shortages this winter? Queues and aggressive reaction at uk petrol stations, soaring electricity and natural gas prices there and elsewhere, media saturations and [...]
« Soylent green »
Is the enthusiasm for ESG funds exaggerated? The movie was scary, offering the vision of an overcrowded world, lost in violent cities and faced with a mysterious enterprise “Soylent Green” [...]
The Three Arrows of the Jinpingnomics
The assault on BATX is just one aspect of Xi Jinping’s economic and political plan. “A monarch is powerful when his People is happy,” wrote Simonnet de Maisonneuve in one of his [...]
Crazy Tokens
Would NFTs be the tulips of the XXIe century? The Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands, houses a work by the painter Jan Brueghel the Younger, satire of the “Tulipomania” [...]
Bond garbage
Are all bonds becoming “investment garbage” as Bill Gross claims? I report here the cry of alarm, not to say of anger that has just launched Bill Gross, the famous and former boss of the PIMCO [...]
The time of ruptures
In Venice, G-20 ministers and central bankers are showing a common front. Will it last? This year Venice meeting is reminiscent of another. In November 2008, in the midst of the financial and [...]
The Return of Dr. Doom
At 93, Henry Kaufman gives his thoughts on the evolution of finance and monetary policies… A lesson to ponder. Henry Kaufman represents for many in the profession, the model of the [...]
A swashbuckling capex trend ahead?
Should fear inflationary anxieties or see the dawn a new era of economic and industrial development? What if all the inflationary anxieties of recent months were nothing more than false alarms? [...]
