The state has poured a flood of money on businesses and households to cushion the shock of the pandemic.
90% of the economic losses linked to the closures were absorbed by the public authorities.
This strategy can be read in each other's accounts, eighteen months after the first confinement: while households and companies are emerging from this trauma with respectively a standard of living and margins preserved, or even increasing, the debt state has skyrocketed.
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Such a distribution of the cost of the epidemic could suggest that the executive was content to shift the presentation of the bill by one generation.
Bercy obviously does not have this reading: for Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, the massive intervention of the State has, on the contrary, made it possible to maintain household confidence and business investment and , in turn, a rapid rebound in the French economy.
Was it, however, useful to spend so much when the economic situation
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