Tag: United States
Arrival of British warship in Guyana reignites tension between that country and Venezuela
This image released by the Venezuelan armed forces on December 29, 2023 shows a Venezuelan frigate with the inscription “The Essequibo is ours”. HANDOUT / AFP On one side, a…
“The result of the elections in the United States depends on the economic outlook for 2024, itself linked to the evolution of the conflict in the Middle East”
Sf one event is going to dominate the year 2024, it will most certainly be the American presidential election. Barring an unexpected event, we will probably witness a new confrontation…
after Colorado, Maine excludes Donald Trump from the Republican primaries
Donald Trump, in Waterloo (Iowa), December 19, 2023. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL / AP Is this the start of a snowball effect? The secretary of Maine excluded, Thursday, December 28, Donald Trump…
“Narco Business”, behind the scenes of the report
How do you conduct an investigation within a Mexican cartel? Bertrand Monnet, specialist in the economics of crime, answers questions from Internet users behind the scenes of “Narco Business”, his…
In the United States, children, new victims of the fentanyl epidemic
A memorial at the door of a daycare, after the death of a child and the poisoning of three others, following suspected exposure to fentanyl, in New York, September 21,…
Robert Solow, or the longevity of a “model” in economics
Economic giant Robert Solow died on December 21 at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts. I have had the privilege, over the past forty years, to interact with many brilliant economic…
Kanye West apologizes for anti-Semitic comments he made a year ago
Kanye West, November 6, 2019, in New York (United States). ANGELA WEISS / AFP A coincidence, perhaps. A few weeks before the release of his new album, American rapper Kanye…
how to explain this very rare case
An American mother has just given birth to two babies, one day apart, because she has two uteruses. This is an exceptional, if not rare, situation, and one which could…
two rescuers sentenced in the United States after the death of a black person during an arrest
Two American emergency workers have been found guilty of “criminally negligent manslaughter” by a Colorado court jury. On August 24, 2019, they were called by police officers to the scene…
The United States’ dilemma facing Donald Trump
LDid the next US presidential campaign start in Colorado? On December 19, the Supreme Court of this state ruled Donald Trump ineligible due to his alleged responsibilities in the assault…
The Supreme Court of the United States refuses to rule urgently on the immunity of Donald Trump
Donald Trump in Waterloo, Iowa, in December 2023. SCOTT MORGAN / REUTERS Was former President Donald Trump protected by presidential immunity when he tried to overturn the results of the…
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…