Tag: Mondial economy
the hesitation-waltz of the Chinese regulator
Lhe regulatory world is not a priori the most exciting, but, in China, it can cause drama. At the end of December, the National Administration of Press and Publications performed…
the “new normal” of natural disasters
View of homes destroyed by a tornado on March 26, 2023, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES VIA AFP A stable overall cost but increasingly destructive storms.…
“Encouraging economic inefficiency through customs barriers, as Trump advocates, leads to impoverishment”
“Tariff Man 2” or the return of the “tariff man”. This is not a blockbuster from Marvel Studios, but a remake of an already proven political scenario: the election of…
In 2024, after inflation, the risk of recession
COLCANOPA This is perhaps the only fact about which economists have no doubt – but no hold either: in 2024, the number one risk for the economy will be… geopolitics.…
“The sanctions taken by the United States and the European Union against Russia are an important factor in global fragmentation”
LHeightened geopolitical tensions, particularly the growing rivalry between the United States and China, are the main catalyst for the fragmentation of the global economy. China, which established itself as the…
“Threats to health will remain at the center of the story of progress and its setbacks”
Dyears The great Escape, published ten years ago (translated by PUF in 2016), I told how human life has improved over the last two hundred and fifty years, particularly in…
“We are experiencing a casino economy worldwide with ever more complex financial arrangements”
LFrench economic news is neurotically subordinated to the evaluations given by the rating agencies on French debt. After a week of anxiety awaiting the decision of the Standard and Poor’s…
Cuba announces major budgetary restriction plan
A man sells cookies in Havana, December 20, 2023. YAMIL LAGE / AFP “The island is experiencing a war economy scenario. » This is how the Cuban Prime Minister, Manuel…
after COP28, “the alarms of climate activists remain entirely justified”
IIt is very difficult to judge the results of COP28, which met at the beginning of December in Dubai. Some retain significant and concrete commitments such as the tripling of…
“The ongoing wars raise the problem of organizing an economy in times of conflict”
Lpolitical economy was born at the turn of the 16the and XVIIe centuries with the mercantilists. For them, the economy is the continuation of war by other means. They thought…
The Fed is 110 years old, the story of a rise to power
This year, Jerome Powell delivered an early Christmas present to the markets. On December 13, the institution he chairs, the Federal Reserve (Fed, American central bank), suggested that it would…
“Geoeconomic fragmentation is not just a future scenario, it is already visible”
LInternational trade has never developed independently of political relations between nations. Mercantilist authors from the turn of the 16th centurye and XVIIe centuries justified surpluses in the balance of trade…