An electoral campaign frequently consists for the candidates in proclaiming that all what has been done for thirty and even forty years is a failure after another one. A candidate went even to pretend that one of the previous presidents had put the French economy into the worst situation. Three recent or forecast events and devoted to examples of major France successes show to which point all these declarations are without any basis and so are misleading.

Last year, in September was celebrated the 40th anniversary of the putting into operation of the Paris-Lyon High-Speed train line. That putting into ...

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At the end of February, inflation, year-on-year in France reached 3.6 %. This month alone, consumption prices had increased by 0.7% after 0.3% in January. If we use the harmonized calculation mode defined by the European rules, inflation has been during that period 4.1%, an unknown level for thirty years. The main cause has been the increase of the energy prices (+21% on one year) resulting from geopolitical tensions because the costs production increases had not yet been completely passed to the other categories of goods and services. In the United States, inflation year on year has ...

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The interest rate on the French State 10-years bond has reached 0.68% at the market closure last Friday. It was a light diminution compared to the previous days when it had overpassed 0.70% but a strong increase since the beginning of the year. In 2021, the 10- years rate had been all along the year near zero. The fall had started in 2019 when it had been clearly negative (-0.40% in August for instance). It stabilized in 2020 and had finished the year at -0.34%. The short term rates, them, remained under zero for three years ...

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