Public accounts have started diving into very deep waters. The amending finance bills - these moments when the executive puts numbers to describe the reality of the moment - are decompression stages, dangerously close. The second PLFR of the sequence of health crisis - which estimates at 9% the deficit of 2020, at 8% the recession - is not yet voted that, already, the Minister of Public Accounts, Gérald Darmanin, warns: "There may have a third amending budget with probably even more impressive figures. ” Impressive, indeed! This week, the OFCE had the good idea of translating abstract GDP points into euros. Two months of confinement will cost France 120 billion. In other words, we are losing 2 billion euros a day!
The public debt that the executive sought to contain below 100% should reach the end of the year 115% of GDP according to the second PLFR (improperly qualified as "second"
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