INSEE has given its first estimate of inflation for the month of February. Over one year, prices increased by 0.8% and by 0.9% in harmonized European data. We have to go back to 2019 to find such a low level. The continued rise in the prices of services (+2.1%) was offset by the stability of the prices of food products (except fresh products with +1.8%), manufactured products and the fall in energy prices (-5.7%). The industrial and agricultural sectors seem to have priced in the consequences on their production costs of supply chain disruptions caused ...

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The consequences of climate change are more visible every day, even if their media coverage accentuates the perception of the phenomenon. This is not new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, on the contrary, there were fears of a cooling that would make the Earth, like the Moon, a dead planet. This fear inspires novelists. Jules Verne proposes a Journey to the Center of the Earth and Ray Bradbury, in his Martian Chronicles, imagines that Earthlings will have to emigrate to Mars to survive. Soon after, there were concerns about the presence of unidentified flying objects in the sky ...

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For more than ten years, France's economic policy has been focused on restoring the competitiveness of companies and on reindustrialisation. If growth is to be achieved sufficiently to reduce unemployment significantly and sustainably, both objectives must be achieved. But the results so far have not been in line with expectations. Growth has never exceeded 2% for two years in a row, unemployment has been slowly reduced but has just started to rise again and France's unemployment rate remains one of the highest of the major developed economies. Finally, the external deficit in goods excluding energy is still high ...

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