5 March 2012
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The moment of truth
Francois Hollande’s 75 percent tax rate proposal for those with annual income of more than EUR 1 million is both totally impractical and extremely useful.
Francois Hollande’s 75 percent tax rate proposal for those with annual income of more than EUR 1 million is both totally impractical and extremely useful.
The French have a special relationship with cinema, which they invented: they see a lot of theatrical releases (over 200 million visitors in 2011); they produce a very great number of them (over 200 in 2011); they export them; they come from everywhere to shoot in France; and it is in France that the world’s largest film festival is held, which is also the world’s number one market.
Is it necessary to apply the same haircut to the European Central Bank than the one done on private banks?
When a tropical cyclone is formed, vortices come together and take the form of a large column of wind that rises according to helical motions around a protected area. We know almost nothing about the causes of these cyclones, where they are formed, how they move…
Germany and France found themselves four times in one century, each in turn, in the position when they were able, through absurd or shameful decisions, to transform Europe into a field of ruins. And they did it. In 1914, both were involved in the chain of events that led to the First World War. In 1919
Qu’est ce que la concurrence ? C’est un processus naturel de lutte contre la rareté dans un chacun pour soi fondateur. Cette recherche de survie est un moyen pour atteindre l’excellence. Dans son acception positive, la concurrence, c’est l’émulation.
Why are facts so similar to what was expected? Why do politicians react so late when facing the evidence? Why is it they continue to believe that there is no problem that a lack of solution will not eventually solve? Why is it that they always try to solve problems known for years at the last minute?
The Socialist Party primary elections are an indication that this week, as well as the following weeks, in the French media and in the debates between political leaders, left and right, the discussion will be mainly about old disputes, new alliances, jobs for young people, de-globalization, generational contract, and other exciting issues…
While the Socialists allowed themselves to be trapped in a strange primaries debate (where the candidates only questioned themselves on subjects that are not of presidential competency, but of parliamentary competency, without being asked anything neither on defense, Europe or foreign policy, any of the major social issues for which the president is accountable) preparing the moment when the right will say…
