To have or not.
The French have found a new reason for division as they like them and which is heating up the public debate.
The divide is not about wealth, or even income, but about savings.
Savers have "enriched themselves while sleeping", to use the phrase of François Mitterrand, accuses the
vox populi
which takes advantage of official figures.
130 billion euros in “savings” in 2020 says the Banque de France, whose statistical apparatus is best qualified to track the flow of money.
200 billion euros over the two years 2020 and 2021 predicts Bercy which uses it both as a scarecrow and a reason to hope: these funds, double the current "recovery plan", constitute a strike force as long as we know how to use it.
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“There are 30% of French people who saved during the crisis, and there are 30% of French people who got into debt. This means that there is a part of the population which has become impoverished and a part, not necessarily which has become richer,
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