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The Figaro editorial: "Immunize the economy"

2021-01-08T20:25:45.018Z


By Gaëtan de Capèle. At the time of the wishes, Bruno Le Maire, commissioned to revive the economy, would no doubt have preferred to deliver a more pleasant message. The times, alas, do not lend themselves to it: with a virus which persists and which mutates, "the most difficult is in front of us" , he announces from the outset to those who dreamed of better days. Diagnosis very widely shared by all those who dissect


At the time of the wishes, Bruno Le Maire, commissioned to revive the economy, would no doubt have preferred to deliver a more pleasant message.

The times, alas, do not lend themselves to it: with a virus which persists and which mutates,

"the most difficult is in front of us"

, he announces from the outset to those who dreamed of better days.

Diagnosis very widely shared by all those who dissect in the smallest details the folds and folds of an economy subjected to the untenable test of dustop-and-go

: shutdown in the spring, relaunched in the summer, stopped again in the fall, re-oxygenated at Christmas while waiting for a probable interruption in the coming weeks ... the machine, by dint of jolting, does not end to deteriorate.

For the moment, the powerful firewalls erected by the government obscure the reality of things.

The collapse in activity - we would have suffered a historic recession of around 10% in 2020 - has not yet fully materialized in the real economy.

Certainly, many shops

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Source: lefigaro

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