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U.S. consumers spent just slightly more in February even though their income rose by a healthy amount. But economists hope bigger paychecks will give spending a bigger boost in the coming months.
The biggest player in the beleaguered nuclear power industry wants a place alongside solar, wind and hydroelectric power collecting extra money for producing carbon-free electricity.
U.S.-based electronics retail giant Best Buy Co. is closing its 131 Future Shop stores across Canada and will re-open 65 of them under the Best Buy banner in a bid to bolster business.
Mega coffee chain Starbucks wanted to spark a conversation about race when it asked baristas to write "Race Together" on customers' cups as part of a broader effort, but people standing in line for their morning java were not amused.
The U.S. economy's tepid performance last quarter - a 2.2 percent annual growth rate, the government said Friday - was typical of the economic rebound that began in the summer of 2009.
Bad weather and rising gasoline prices pushed U.S. consumer sentiment a bit lower in March.
The U.S. should immediately begin a push to exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk a renewed reliance on imported oil in the future, an Energy Department advisory council says in a study submitted Friday.
Former Ford CEO Alan Mulally's compensation fell 5 percent to $22 million in his final year at the company, reflecting lower profits as the company invested heavily in new vehicles and plants.
As Indian companies scramble to meet a deadline to appoint women to their boards, some wealthy business owners have a solution that meets the letter if not the intention of the law: appointing their wives.
The leader of small businesses in Mexico City's historic downtown district says owners have complained of a 60 percent drop in sales during the first week of filming of the new James Bond movie, "Spectre."
Mexico's state-owned petroleum company Pemex has signed an agreement giving two investment funds a 45 percent stake in a natural gas pipeline in exchange for $900 million.
Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for a second straight week, edging closer to historically low levels at the start of the spring home-buying season.
Payday lenders would face federal rules aimed at protecting low-income borrowers from being buried by fees and debts under proposals being unveiled Thursday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, evidence that strong hiring should continue despite signs of slower economic growth at the start of 2015.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the House have found something in common. Many have issues with the Obama administration's new regulations requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.


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We don't need Manet : only Money.
This is a very interesting contribution.
It says what people could know ... outside France.
It's clear that the present "Ve République" is an obsolete system, a relique of the military regime General de Gaulle needed to end the war of secession between mainland and submediterranean France.
Since 1981, this regime has been a nearly perfect non-democracy.
Let's explain the full process.
There are 3 steps:
* 1st step: Collect 500 signatures. The mayors give or not their signature. The populist candidate Marine LePen, who represents 1/6 of the population had enormous problems to get those signatures. Until the last days, she could not collect the 500 required signatures. One must say that if a mayor gives his signature to M.LePen, he could have problems with the next president.
[Because France's taxes' system is nearly totaly centralised, the central state could cut the money transfers to local populations. This would imply their financial collapse.]
All potential candidate who could get the 500 signatures can be candidate and go to step 2.
* 2nd step: This is the first round of what is officialy called "Election"
The goal of this round is to preselect the two candidates with best scores and eliminate the other ones.
This means that the two candidates must promise nearly anything.
In the present situation of France's economy, both are promissing to solve the problems with a kind of voodoo method: Spend more, while spending less, tax increase to cut taxes.
To express ideas, the voters chose the 2nd round.(One must notice that French citizens have no other opportunity to express what they think). If they have not precisely ideas, they vote for one of the two candidates who are promising anything.
Presently, these two candidates are Monsieur Sarkozy and Monsieur Hollande.
Their program are labeled "right" or "left".
In France, the "left" promises to spend what is not yet cashed and the "right" promises not to do the same.
* The 3rd step is the 2nd round (second tour) of the "election".
At that moment, the Citizen systematically votes against the candidate he does not want for president.
- In a party: a candidate who represents a minority (let's say: 20%) of his party is selected by his party.
- This candidate collects 500 signature given by frightened mayors.
- This candidate promises anything, in order to be preselected against the candidates who have ideas. His party represents 30% of this coalition
- This candidate is selected in order to be less rejected than the other candidate.
Let's assume a score of 30%.
This candidate is hated by less than the half of the electors participating to the final round.
Let's try to calculate the real representativity of the "President of every French"
0.2 x 0.3 x 0.3 = 1,8% ... les than 2%
This lack of representativity is similar for any "President of every French"
"[Because France's taxes' system is nearly totaly centralised, the central state could cut the money transfers to local populations. This would imply their financial collapse.]
All potential candidate who could get the 500 signatures can be candidate and go to step 2."
hmm it's not the central state that these mayors fear (since there are régions, communautés de communes...), but their local party representatives, if they sign for someone who doesn't reach their agreement
Can't grap your math
happyfish18 wrote;
"Despite leading the French into economic oblivion, Sarkozy is determined to win at all costs. First, he has circumscribed his main testorone-filled rival using the usual sex-trap prostitution tactics. Now he seems to drive up the public hysteria against the migrant Burga, Jihadist and other cultural activities."
"First, he has circumscribed his main testorone-filled rival using the usual sex-trap prostitution tactics"
No, his entrapment strategy was aimed at nabbing DSK AFTER he had been nominated as the Socialist contender, thus killing the Socialists for good. That was the Lille Sofitel affair, which had been under investigation for months and was kept in reserve for that very purpose. It is now chugging along to general indifference, because the NY Sofitel affair killed DSK's career early on and allowed the Socialists to field a robust candidate. Of course at the time Sarkozy's friends were oozing glee, but it was none of their doing and they're bitterly sorry their own trap was made ineffective.
Let's calculate once again: (with fractions instead of %)
The one who is elected has got:
2nd round -> More than 50%+1 of the voters who hate the other candidate. It changes nothing about representativity.
1st round: 1/3 of the voters selected his coalition.
-> His coalition represents 1/3 of the citizens (who voted)
His party represents 1/3 of his coalition.
-> This means that his party represents 1/3 of 1/3 of the electors.
In numbers, it gives 1/3 x 1/3 = 1/9 of the citizens (who voted)
In his own party, the candidate was selected among 6 to -8 possible candidates. To simplify, let's assume that the selected candidate represents 1/2 of the members of his own party.
Therfore, he represents 1/2 of the people who voted for his party.
In numbers, it gives 1/9 x 1/2 = 1/18 -> Around 5%
With rather optimistic assumptions, one can observe that no president of the last 3 decades represented more than 1 person among 20.
except for the UMP
The French Republic embodies modern "respectable" socialism. So I want them to elect the socialist and go off the deep end again, as under Mitterand. I want to watch as their bonds spreads spike, their debt (and banks) get downgraded, and they learn that the bond market's decisions are not tempered by mercy or solidarity.
So do I. They deserve it, trust me. I speak as a Frenchman, and I'm weary of all this socialist nonsense. They deserve to find out about reality the hard way.
Despite leading the French into economic oblivion, Sarkozy is determined to win at all costs. First, he has circumscribed his main testorone-filled rival using the usual sex-trap prostitution tactics. Now he seems to drive up the public hysteria against the migrant Burga, Jihadist and other cultural activities.
Even though I mostly agree with the statement and deplore the fact Sarkozy has descended into immigrant-hunting sprees in order to glean votes from the far right, I think such behaviour is hardly confined to the UMP. In fact, Hollande has been doing the same sort of thing, he's just found another set of scapegoats: the rich, the successful, the entrepreneurs, etc. After all, Mr Melenchon, his ally and the guy who represents a reserve of votes for the run-off, has publicly called for spoliation.
Another lame attempt at french-bashing, as usual systematically ignoring things that goes in the way of their ideologically driven drivel, like the constant policy to not replace 1 for 2 civils servants retiring, the constant respect of the deficit targets, etc. Nope, at least once a year crass "anglo-saxon" propaganda and french-bashing is needed on the cover. What a disgrace.
French-bashing is selling very well among TE's readers ...
350 comments and hardly anyone has even tried to tackle any of the points in the article or raise intelligent counter arguments.
Instead we get pages of barely readable dross, off topic sneering and economic stupidity. As usual.
With this infantile inability to accept criticism or face reality, is it any wonder the world has written the eurozone off as a lost cause?
are you the moderator?
Guess "you" are "the world", and anyone who begs to differ with your views is writing economic stupidity. Excellent arguments. Duh.
My comment seems to have hooked two of the worst offenders! :)
Oh, you were trolling then. Welcome.
If you think my comment was trolling it would imply that you consider the comments thus far a quality debate, which rather neatly proves the article correct.
I am sorry to have to refresh your English; trolling is not necessarily low quality posting, what sets it apart is its purpose: needling other bloggers, through aggressive statements, into a response of any kind, thus "owning" the responder(s). A funny pastime no doubt, just count me out.
Dear author,
while I agree with the gist of the article, I find the introductory paragraph a bit polemic and factually incorrect.
France - while undoubtedly slow to accept the neccessity for substantial reforms, left alone enact them - is neither Italy nor Spain (left alone Greece!).
Italy and Spain would be insolvent without massive liquidity injections via the ECB, as indicated by ...
- their banks' outsized shares in the recent 1.1. trillion liquidity injection by the ECB (among them, Italian and Spanish banks took around 55% of all available credits, even though their banking sector accounts for less than 25% of that of the eurozone);
- the fact that via the ECB's "target2" mechanism, the Italian and Spanish central banks owe about 350 billion Euro to the ECB - which is guaranteed nearly exclusively by the German Bundesbank (the factual lender of last resort in the eurozone).
In terms of avoiding insolvency, France can still take of itself, Italy and Spain cannot.
Apart from that, the fundamentals of the French economy are stronger than those of either of its Mediterranean neighbours, and their political system is more disciplined than Italy's, which I'd rank second to last in the eurozone (after Greece, of course).
The most salient fact about French politics is that their brand of socialism is borne out of resentment.
Many thanks for your expertise.
Britain is maybe a better country to make money but France is still a better country where to spend it ...
France's population is in denial, there is not a single candidate for Liberalism.
But Britain's population is in a much more severe denial, thinking that the Tories are actually promoting Liberalism when their government is actually defending Keynesian measures. Not a single country in the west has actually tried to free people and companies from taxes. The crises last for only one reason: fiscal uncertainty, induced by existing debt and by the political answer, new taxes.
When i saw the title, i tought that The economist was talking about England itself...It's quite ironic : me (as a french and a pretty chauvinistic one) and The Economist are just turning a blind eye on the real situation of our own country. Anyway, Do you really think that young or rich french peoples will go to England rather than Germany or Swiss ? It must be a joke, especially for the young ones, who wants to pay 50k€ in order to study ? Moreover, the liberal solutions recommended by The Economist are not performing so well in Britain, aren't they ? ( or it's not obvious yet, i don't really see the difference but i saw the sacrifice of the british people) In addition,there is a simple explanation of all the phenomenon : French peoples are just fed up with economy in the presidential campaign and consequently the candidates don't talk about it ...
However, the photomontage is very funny and i hope that The Economist will retrieve its pertinence soon...
PS: Sorry for my awful english, i wish i will be understood ...
"as a french and a pretty chauvinistic one"
I think this is called a tautology.
What did you say about "obnoxious two year old" something again ... ?:)
I think such a tautology pointed out by an Englishman is called "the pot calling the kettle black". :)
Don't be mad at us !!
It's not our fault if we have a better economical, social, energetic, military situation than you and we still manage to have fun, free time (and a strong social security/medicare system, great schools and hospitals, functionning roads and train system, an agriculture that still produces something, good food and drinks, better football and rugby team etc, etc, etc. j'en passe) and enjoy life !!
I'm here in Paris, working at the reception of my hotel and talking everyday with english lads and lass who can't wait to come in France have finally a bit of good times...
You will get there too one day, keep working on it dear friends and neighbours !
We must have been living in a different country, then. In the France I know, children get crap "education", 20pc of students in secondary education fail to read or spell their own language properly, not to mention foreign languages. Trains are always running late and fares are far higher than they are in Britain, and I would know about this since I lived in both countries. French agriculture is heavily subsidised and far less efficient than, say, its NZ equivalent. On the other hand, you are right that the NHS is far worse than its French counterpart. Can it be because the NHS is 100% public whereas the French system has been subcontracting parts of its management to the private sector?
yeah, and how come that we have the biggest percentage of graduates?
the education problems that you are pointing aren't only a french specificity, but a contemporain specifity for all the modern states
french agriculture isn't more subsidied than its peers, according the percentages, considering that France is , by far the biggest EU agricultural productor
"It's not our fault if we have a better economical, social, energetic, military situation than you and we still manage to have fun, free time"
If your ambition was to sound like an obnoxious two year old well done you achieved it
Concerning the French healthcare system, if "subcontracting parts of its management to the private sector?" makes such a huge difference, why on earth hasn't anyone thought about doing the same in the UK until now?
The deficiencies of the education system you mentioned are common to most industrialised countries, but according to OECD figures, France ranks higher than UK in education.
In 2011 45% of pupils who reached level 4c in literacy (the expected level at the end of primary school) at the age of 11 did not achieve a grade C in their GCSE English exams.
So it appears that "crap" French education is no crappier than that of the UK.
"yeah, and how come that we have the biggest percentage of graduates?"
Because "higher" education is virtually free in France. Knock out prices and demand will skyrocket, that's basic economics. Besides, many graduates milk the system and then go abroad. At HEC Paris, up to 60pc of graduates leave France for more business-friendly destinations (that is, virtually anywhere else). I will soon emulate them.
As for French agriculture, it is subsidised as are other EU member states, but I was specifically talking about the NZ case. In the 1980s, NZ cut subsidies to virtually zero in two years, which has resulting in a strong, productive agriculture with an excellent record in terms of exports and quality. For the first time in the West's history, people began to settle in the countryside again, because it had become profitable to start up a farm business. Why? Simples: the NZ government used to misdirect production because of the subsidies which did not adjust to market conditions and did not reflect demand in international markets. NZ farmers now receive these signals and can adjust.
"if "subcontracting parts of its management to the private sector?" makes such a huge difference, why on earth hasn't anyone thought about doing the same in the UK until now?"
Because the NHS is an entrenched dinosaur and government propaganda has been very effective in reviling the free-market system as a bringer of death and unhappiness in the health sector. They probably haven't looked at the progress Germany has recently been making and where more and more people switch to private healthcare where they pay less and receive more as a result of competition mechanisms. The truth is most Brits don't even know how much they pay into the NHS on a yearly basis, which is why they are so uncritical of the system on the whole (as are the French). If government were so successful at running healthcare, the UK would now have one of the best healthcare system in the world considering the money Labour relentlessly poured into the whole thing. Instead, it's an antiquated oddity where 40% of the money is expended on administrative staff and cancer survival rates are lower than in Bulgaria. The NHS is accountable to no one, and need not satisfy its customers since they have no serious alternative. Government then makes the whole thing confused and try not to let out any data that might suggest they are not doing a good job.
"The deficiencies of the education system you mentioned are common to most industrialised countries, but according to OECD figures, France ranks higher than UK in education."
I'll grant you that one, even though PISA tests (OECD) suggest British pupils are better at sciences. However, you have many more universities that rank up the international tables, unlike France.
Well I know they are overall uncritical of the NHS, it's a sort of over-idealised symbol of their identity, so it would probably feel like blasphemy to criticise it.
Concerning mismanagement of public money (to use a euphemism), I suggest the reading of "Fleeced", an edifying account on how the UK scuttled itself over the past 15 years.
"I'll grant you that one, even though PISA tests (OECD) suggest British pupils are better at sciences. However, you have many more universities that rank up the international tables, unlike France."
Thanks ! :)
If many French students leave France after a few years at Uni or Grandes Ecoles, it shows that the quality of French Higher Education isn't as bad as international league tables tend to show. From what I understand rench graduates are greatly sought after in "Anglo-Saxon" univsersities, which would prove my point.
Plus the fact that the international ranking system used to assess Higher Education was created by this Chinese guy (can't remember his name), to compare US and Chinese universities only, using a methodology specifically designed to this purpose.
And he has said many times over the years that using his system to compare universities all around the world is irrelevant and would only give misleading results.
"Well I know they are overall uncritical of the NHS, it's a sort of over-idealised symbol of their identity, so it would probably feel like blasphemy to criticise it."
"From what I understand rench graduates are greatly sought after in "Anglo-Saxon" univsersities, which would prove my point."
I could definitely confirm this from my own experience, but that only highlights the fact France cannot appeal a number of its more brilliant graduates. I was referring to THE rankings (Times Higher Education), not the Shanghai ARWU. My guess is that French universities are left out because they don't publish much in English-speaking journals and their students are taught in a French-centred fashion.
"My guess is that French universities are left out because they don't publish much in English-speaking journals and their students are taught in a French-centred fashion."
That would also be my guess, knowing the problem in the field of historical research.
" My guess is that French universities are left out because they don't publish much in English-speaking journals"
Really, how arrogant of these French to publish in French.
I guess French education also rates very low in Gagaouze, Tagalog or Hindi rankings...
"Really, how arrogant of these French to publish in French."
That's precisely what I meant when I said the French are dinosaurs and live behind the times. The days when French could still purport to be the language of the aristocracy, used in diplomacy and trendy circles are long bygone. France is mired in antiquated worldviews: its economics are clearly past their sell-by date, and France has long ceased to have a meaningful influence in world affairs, which should come as a relief considering how it mismanaged the decolonisation process. Instead of whingeing as they usually do, the French ought to get a grip and adjust to their new surroundings, otherwise France will become what it already is in many regards: a backwater. It would be a pity if the nation that produced Turgot, Cantillon, Say and Bastiat could not reclaim its heritage and shake-off the shackles of dirigisme. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a Frenchman (and yes, I still live in France, although not for long), by the way. Like it or not, English is the world's language and if you don't publish in that language, you likely won't be read and understood outside France and what is left of the "Francophonie" (the butt of the joke for many international organisations).
Oh, I know you're a Frenchman - only a Frenchman can be so opinionated. I have no problem with researchers publishing in English, although I have one with their level of English. But that English-speakers should presume to judge academic quality on such a criterion is very telling on their own parochialism.
I really love the English language and feel sorry for the awful, colourless mash it is made of by the world's aspiring "elites". Well, it made its own bed.
btw I worked in international organizations. The French there are in no way proponents of Francophonie - they scramble over each other to display their English-speaking skills, even when translation is provided and mandatory. It is the French-speaking countries which insist on both adequate translation and interpretation, and perfect grammar and style in French versions of working documents. What a bunch of clueless snobs! Wanting to exist at all!
In your new surroundings, please don't forget to preach English to the Hispanics.
"I worked in international organizations."
Good for you, I hope you enjoyed all the free meals at our expense.
Shows how much you know about international organizations. Guess what, their civil servants EVEN pay income tax, at a level fairly comparable with France's. But if you'd rather believe they splurge on freebies between two black helicopter flights... that's teabagger rhetoric, for what it's worth, but it figures.
Typical for someone who lives off the income of other people. Last time I checked, for example, most EU officials pay far less taxes than ordinary citizens, just ask Catherine Ashton. What value did you bring us in return for our taxes? Did you ask us whether we needed your services? Did we enter a voluntary exchange whereby we paid you money in exchange for something we wanted? I thought not. You despise people far too much for that.
This word is indicative of a very specific mindset which I won't qualify further.
"someone who lives off the income of other people"
As fairly everyone does, including you, unless you found a gold mine.
I have no idea about the EC (not EU, please differentiate) tax system. But most international organizations simply remove a hefty tax amount from your payslip (in addition to various insurances), so that the take-home pay is not exactly that advertised, by far. It is less painful than filling in a tax form and mailing a check, but it is exactly the same.
I've worked in FAO, a UN specialized agency, which has many faults but whose overall contribution to developing economies far exceeds its fiscal cost. Incidentally my unit worked like a consultancy in that it got its funding from international institutions such as the World Bank (which do NOT rely on tax income) in direct exchange for specific project-related prestations, so your rants about my free lunches at your expense leave me cold, but even the core budget-funded UN agencies are well known for their hard work and substantial achievements, hillbilly nitpicking aside.
As for the questions about "your" voluntary agreement to such organisations' existence, work and usefulness, I am awfully sorry nobody thought of asking "you" personally, but yes, you did agree, through treaties signed by Govt and ratified by Parliament. Wanting out of these shows how much of a dinosaur "you" actually are.
"As fairly everyone does, including you, unless you found a gold mine."
Does it make it right?
"are well known for their hard work and substantial achievements, hillbilly nitpicking aside."
You wouldn't tell me if the opposite were true, would you?
"As for the questions about "your" voluntary agreement to such organisations' existence, work and usefulness, I am awfully sorry nobody thought of asking "you" personally, but yes, you did agree, through treaties signed by Govt and ratified by Parliament. Wanting out of these shows how much of a dinosaur "you" actually are."
The same social contract theory all over again. So you don't care if people can't have a say in the matter and can't be allowed to opt out? You don't care if people on low incomes have to pay for work they don't want to mandate, that will not benefit them in the slightest. You'll forgive me if I don't shed a tear on your predicament. You don't leave it to their individual judgment to determine whether they think they're better out by it. It must be so befuddling being as smart as you to make so many choices for so many people. And you dare accuse me of belittling the democratic process! Ahahah, go back to work and improve our world, you master of all you survey. I have no time for such nonsense.
I happen to be self-employed and to be at work, so I thank you for the permission to go about on my own business. I'll be happy to react if you give us an idea of the way you propose to take into account every single individual's preferences and choices, other than through some voting process, but otherwise I'll be leaving you the last word. Enjoy. And don't worry about my predicament - I never mentioned any.
I'll take the last word: glad you changed occupations. Individual preferences are taken account of through market processes, and individual ownership of the fruit of one's labour. As for your predicament, I hinted at the way you whinged about the take-home pay at the FAO.
Basicaly my intention was the same as the person who wrote the article and says sarcasticly by depreciating the french presidential election that U.K is so much better than France, who really doesn't understand anything about the modern world, etc.always the same old absurdity. It's obviously to make us react and curse at each other and it works very well. But as long as it's the journalist it's all fine to you, grown up talks right !? But when someone dares to reflect what has been writen by you, you chocke. Pretty pathetic for an adult.
Because more seriously, France is indeniably the 5th economy in world, the french working population has one of the best productivity in Europe, I studied at the Sorbonne and there was students from all around the world, our state organisation - with now powerfull regions and not so much an "over centralised" state - is pretty much what you see everywhere else in Europe, we have as many public debt as England (with a lot more public servants, the effiecency of each can only be evaluated by the users), so the article of TE seems quite over the top and so are all the reactions saying "France still lives in the Middle Age" ! Our countries are pretty damn close in many aspects, and the few differents in odd historical aspects of each culture (our public service, your Queen, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower or whatever) shouldn't be so important if it wasn't for our up and down very old common History...
Seeing the heated reactions to my ironic comment indicates to me that our love/hate disfunctionnal relationship is far from being appeased yet ))
HEC isn't state subsidied
French agriculture isn't more subsidied than the other EU countries, by percentage, it happens that France is the biggest productor, and by far (France: 27%, UK: 6%)
and only big farms, and or big landowners, and big agroalimentary industry get the jack pot, Queen of England, Prince of Monaco, Porsche inheritant, dutch MP, Italians millionnaires... The PAC thing wasn't made for little exploitants, they who couldn't invest to reach the criteriums, they couldn't give their business to their children, not enough benefitful, a significant number committed suicide, too small businesses get bankrupted... The EU neoliberalist program is killing the small businesses !!!!!!
I did not state HEC is state-subsidised. This is a figment of your imagination.
French agriculture, again, is more subsidised than its NZ counterpart. Check the figures: the dependence ratio is 30pc for French agriculture, whereas it is less than 1pc for NZ agriculture. Check your facts.
I am perfectly aware of the fact the CAP works to the advantage of bigger farms. It also restrains production, distorts prices and fiddles competition. Last time I checked subsidies have nothing to do with "neoliberalism". You should brush up on your economic history as well as your English, by the way.
NZ isn't in EU, or indirectly through Britain with its commonwealth. It's how NZ frozen mutton reached our supermarkets at a lower price that our local production
It's the reason why de Gaulle was reluctant to see Britain in the common moarket
What would be the point of comparing EU countries since they largely fall under the same provisions? The Commonwealth is a non-binding international organisation, it has nothing to do with the EU. You are wide off the mark, again.
no, I'm aware of the realities of the GROUND
You must be aware of the reality of the ground on the moon by the looks of it.
I am French... All this is so true! I just regret that there is nothing in the article about the droopy centrist Bayrou, our happy band of trotkists (Poutou and Arthaud), the watermelon ecologists (green outside - red inside), the naughty right-wing extremists and the circus phenomenon (Melenchon). The latter is trying to drive the country back to the XIXth century social class litterature. Believe me: he means it!
We have got quite a competition this year! I would really laugh if the situation was not so pathetic and that it did not involve the country I live in...
(at Garaboncias: we indeed going in Seine)
So why allow the French to vote in elections? Better do like the Italians and Greeks and have the markets designate caretaker Premiers. With strong Wall Street or City connections a prerequisite. Enough already with countries thinking they have a say.
Incredible how people from abroad itch to impose more of the so-called "reforms" which have proven their inefficiency and basic fairlessness. You want more of Mr Sarkozy's wisdom? please oh please take him!
And the claim that the French ignore their economic woes is ludicrous. What they politely ignore is the snake oil remedies being hawked by the same old bunch. "Flexibilize your labor markets," they say, meaning "tenderize the workforce", "and Santa Claus will scramble down the chimney". Was tried... not once but several times... never worked as employers' promises were blithely forgotten. And that's only one such example. So why should we even listen???
"You want more of Mr Sarkozy's wisdom? please oh please take him!"
And what has Sarkozy been doing of late? 23 new taxes, anyone?
"And the claim that the French ignore their economic woes is ludicrous."
No, it isn't. The French are the most crassly economically-illiterate bunch ever. Half of them were found unable to compute interest on a 100-euro investment at a 2pc rate a year in a recent survey. I wouldn't expect them to know how markets work and self-equilibrate in light of such economic ignorance. Obviously, you are part of that whining lot.
you know, we are still living in caverns, and ride donkeys
I was computing aggregate interest (and internal rates of return) before worksheets came around. Talk about arrogance.
I never denied markets self-equilibrate. Self-equilibrating is not such a wonderful quality when taken alone. Look how Titanic self-equilibrated nicely on the ocean floor.
But I wouldn't expect you to look beyond your Thatcherite creed... pray on.
In terms of economics, I have experienced 21 years of French ignorance on the matter.
So what? You're part of the 50pc who can still compute interest, which isn't exactly intellectually demanding, nor are IRR measures or NPV and the like. That's simple maths, really.
Oh yeah, and what do you expect from government? Do you believe it can figure out what the price for every single commodity is? Do you believe it can instantaneously figure out where demand and supply meet? Do you genuinely believe government officials are concerned with your well-being? Do you believe that pollies have the knowledge to operate what in effect amounts to the aggregation of billions of human transactions behind which there are billions of different ways of thinking, a different drive and so on? Do you believe government officials know about actual issues in all sectors of industry and services? In France, most of them have never heard of economics, and many have certainly never worked in the private sector. Do you believe it's morally right to compel people to give up their income so others can line their pockets? Who do you think you are to decide how much you'll tax others? In short, you're a socialist: deluded, animated with daunting hubris, and contemptuous of other people's wishes.
especially if you wanted to impose your concept, it's like Muslims that want to impose their sharia
Or like socialists who want to tax everyone else and live off the money they did not earn.
you are benefitting of these "socialist" policies yourself, you are just spitting into the soup, your conceiption is valid in a virtual world, that doesn't exist, nowhere !
tick !
Our situation in Italy did not allow us to risk five months of electoral campaign plus the time to form a government afterwards.
Monti was not created by the markets, he was created by President Giorgio Napolitano, a former Partisan who was for decades leader of the pro-American, pro-NATO faction of the Italian Communist Party. (Yes, I know, Italy is an upside-down country, thanks to the presence of the Vatican. If you French would like to take the Pope, we would gladly accept his transfer to Avignon. Then the Pope can ruin the finances of your Civil State.)
We are waiting for a quiet respite from market turmoil to return to elections - which in any case must occur by June of next year. So far, Monti is doing too well to restore our tattered prestige abroad.
Europe has been led into a corner by the nationalist Right. Berlusconi started this insanity, and after too many years of an anti-Euro government in Rome (left unchecked by Brussels over such issues as his undemocratic domination of the media, his criminal proceedings and his deficits which exceeded Maastricht limits), this disease has spread across the continent.
Berlusconi, Cameron, Sarkozy and Merkel have led Europe into a blind alley. (Imagine how different the Greek crisis would have turned out if Prime Minister Gordon Brown had been in office and said, "We will find a way to contribute to helping out Greece". At the very least, we would have been spared 90% of the negative journalism coming out of London against the rescue plans.)
We Italians have finally dumped Berlusconi. Now France must dump their "psycho-dwarf" (as we call Silvio). Hollande is not stupid. "Socialism" in the 21st century does not mean spending money the State does not have; it means reforming the State enough to protect the basic social safety net for future generations.
Thank you for this refreshing perspective. I'm afraid you Brits have always been dab hands at analysing the French in a blunt, straightforward fashion. Even though this is a merciless assessment of the French character, this is spots on and hits it right on the nail. Not one of these hopelessly bland candidates has ever heard of deficits, or knows a thing about economics for that matter, and yet they still insist they can rule us all. As if we needed to be ruled. Get the hell out of the way and let people figure out what they will do! The French are mired in a most obnoxious tradition of mindless dirigisme, and you can rest assured the most ignorant will always end up "in charge". They think they are so clever they can set all prices, because of course angels came down from heaven just in order to tell them what petrol prices ought to be, what the rate of VAT should be (note the decimals)--or that there should indeed be any VAT at all. How blessed we are to have been endowed with such all-mighty, all-knowing beacons of wisdom!
the french politicians are like their european peers, not worst, not better, they all are puppets, or rather polichinelles
And yet Monti managed to repeal thousands of useless decrees and to liberalise a raft of sectors that were previously regulated by government in only a few weeks. Please note that yields on 10-year government bonds have been decreasing in Italy.
it's "pipeau", like a couch of painting on a lezarded wall.
Italy managed to sell 10 years bonds at a better rate than previously, because of the ECB big "ejaculation"
The ECB could not buy up the whole supply of Italian bonds if it wanted to, although monetary incontinence has been very convenient to prop up their chums.
no, but italian banks were picking the biggest part of ECB release
As was always going to happen since Mario Draghi now is the new dictator at the ECB. Tear down central banks, and reintroduce free banking so government can no longer tinker with interest rates and money.
When so-called investors stampede that way and this way in a flurry of purposefully misleading financial instruments, it's the Holy Market at work for the common good, but when government has a monetary policy, it's tinkering. Lovely.
Now, whether such a policy is well thought out is another story. But denying government the right to have one amounts to denying the citizenship any say in its own welfare, and counting on the benevolence of the markets instead. It's a choice...
If having a say on one's own welfare includes coercing others into doing what you want them to do, then it's called slavery. Why should anyone have a say on taxes others pay? It's a road map to the dictatorship of the majority over the few, of the unproductive at the expense of the productive. People are responsible for their own welfare, not government. Government's only purpose is to ensure individual rights are upheld and not infringed. If it does anything else, it inevitably messes up. Only markets, that is people, know what the supply of money should be, and if they make mistakes, markets quickly adjust in ways government can't. Tinkering with interest rates has been responsible for the global financial crises and all crises since the nineteenth century. When central banks undershoot the market interest rate, they pave the way for bubbles like the subprime credit bubble, and artificially inflate the economy. Bank runs are similarly encouraged thanks to a demented fractional-reserve system. Historically low interest rates have made easier for malinvestments to take place (you'll know about adverse selection). Likewise, if central banks had overshot the market interest rate, then there would have been severe rationing of credit with strong recessionary effects. People get to decide about what they want through markets, which are far more democratic than spoliation-based democracy, by the way. If you give away powers to government, they'll use them for their own aggrandisement, the very suggestion they give a fig about you is laughable.
OMG, a libertarian! Rare enough in the US, unheard of in civilized countries. Quaint, lovable critters who'll never be in power, thank God. I'll have this to say for you, you're no mainstream copycat economist. But you're so mired in your ludicrous beliefs that you fail to see they are really that, beliefs.
Hint: you must suspect this anyway - when you feel the need to say "it (government) _inevitably_ messes up", it highlights your awareness of the paucity of fact in support of your contention, and of the need for vocal adjectivation in its advocacy. A telltale sign of insecurity.
I won't argue with you further - one does not argue with missionaries, one puts them to the pot for their protein content. Just one thing: individuals do express themselves at the supermarket till; they also do express themselves at the ballot box. Denying either dimension is damaging to the individuals' rights, which you purport to put above everything else. Please chew over this.
Ad hominem slurs, if that's all you're capable of coming up with in the face of explanation of market mechanisms, either you're not quite conversant with economics or you have nothing to say to that. If you want to challenge the fact government can effectively deal with the economic calculation problem or be omniscient enough to set prices, including interest rates, then prove it. If you believe, as you seem to, that individuals ought to be given licence to plunder their fellows because of their own incompetence, then you need to check your moral premises. Putting a ballot in a polling booth is all right as long as you don't impinge upon other people's lives. Why should you have a claim to my life?
what markets mechanisms? they aren't infaillible, and regularly they drive Societies into bankrupties
Your conception will bring your society back into Dichens times, hello Serfdom !
Who said they are? I did not. My point is government is even more fallible than markets as it fails to input all the new information fast enough to matter whereas markets quickly incorporate the latest data and adjust as a result. In effect, markets are far more flexible than government. Besides, markets result from billions of human interactions whereas government tinkers with prices in a completely arbitrary way and ignores the aspirations of agents, relative scarcity and hard facts. This is why markets, although fallible (as they are made up of fallible individuals), are far more efficient than government and always will be. In order for government to be efficient, it would have to input all the data at a second's notice, and even supercomputers cannot do that. Besides, even if there were high-tech machines, government would have to police all transactions, the cost involved would be immense and liberty would be extinguished. If prices are rigged, then disaster beckons as there would be either rationing or oversupply of given products.
there's no society project, but the promotion of greedy Rentiers
enjoy your serfdom
As a socialist, greed is right up your alley, you would know a lot about that. When you clamour for tax hikes and cry for coercive transfer of other people's money, what are you, if not greedy? And you dare speak of freedom and serfdom! It's the fish calling the kettle back.
either ways, the result is the same !
So, leave each country to deal with the problem with its own means and mentality
sorry fer ya, we are French, not Anglo-Saxons
The yearning for freedom, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are universal.
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note that our debt increased because of our solidarity with the "Mediterranean club" '7 billions' this year !
monnaie à l'allemande, taxes à la scandinave, statism ala Grecque and Italy... nothing à la spanish ;-)
"tant que la France ne sera pas attaquée sur la dette, il n'y aura pas de réforme structurelle"
boff, why should we conform to the neo-liberalist diktats? just quit the structures that alienate us
If as you say it is the people, not merely the candidates, that are in denial, then there is no point in telling them the truth (M. Bayrou gets nowhere); far better they learn the hard way from the harsh reality you expect to swamp them. Until then, let things go on as the people evidently want them, however little they may be to business tastes.
this is a country stuck in the old habits, bogged down in ideologies from the past. Day-dreamers. A weak link in Europe. They will be thrown at the deep end in June, after the general elections.
I like your very good photo-montage which conveys perfectly the nonchalance of our french politicians but I think that the lady who should represent the Republic is a little too white to modern taste; could you not add a touch of the tar brush?.
Same old story, I'm afraid, and not just for France. Universal rent seeking through coalition and State coercion is always a tempting self-defence against perceived islands of monopoly privilege: if you cannot beat them, then join them. Particularly when you are in the midst of a cyclical downswing and are too short-sighted to realize that it will be all over and forgotten in a year or two.
Yet it all ends up killing off the hen that used to lay the golden eggs of growth (and in the end, perhaps, even liberty too). That seems the basic curse still haunting France, just as it is in Italy and Spain and Portugal and Greece (and perhaps even the UK). And it's not a problem only affecting socialist left-wingers, still mired in their class-warring instincts about market economies. Just as damagingly, it also involves the hosts of protection-seeking small bosses and self-employed and white-collar employees who make up the bulk of right-wing support in most places.
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A nice little park in the middle of an Illinois corn field. There are trees, a pond, playground, tent sites and about 24 pull-through RV sites. The entrance and sites are gravel – not all are level front to back and across. To exit, you pull through your site onto the grass field around the back of other sites to the gravel road out. That is the only drawback for us because it RAINED and RAINED the 3 days before we left. That made the field very soggy. We and the owner determined that to drive across the field was not the best route out. Luckily, we had an empty site directly across and behind our rig. The owners' staff assisted us with our exit so that any damage to the grass was minimal. Proximity to the location for the movie: Groundhog Day, Woodstock's town square and environs, was a plus, as well. We camped at Willoaks Campground (Closed) in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
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This is a funky little campground set well off the road on a family farm. The pull through sites look like back in sites at first glance, but the idea is to pull in and face a large lawn area which is used to pull out. Staff is very friendly, the park is quiet, with a fair proportion of seasonal campers. There is a swimming/fishing pond, table and fire ring at each site, and decent room between sites. Wi-Fi works well, but there is a $2 daily fee for Wi-Fi. The park is close enough to Chicago for antenna TV reception. Some of the overnight sites may require a bit of work to level your rig, but I've seen worse. We would stay here again. We camped at Willoaks Campground (Closed) in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
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This is a small family owned campground positioned on a 100+ acre farm. It is clean and well maintained. Although the spaces between sites is small, it has a beautiful little swimming lake and has lots of open space around it. It is set back from the road by a long lane. It is busy on the weekends with family campers, but during the week is very tranquil. The manager is very accommodating and helpful. Woodstock is a very quaint small town (the movie Ground Hog Days was filmed there) with a large Wal-Mart, and a town square. There was good Wi-Fi and we got an excellent Verizon signal on our cellphone. There is an small charge for Wi-Fi and electricity if you are on the weekly rate. We camped at Willoaks Campground (Closed) in a Travel Trailer.Undo
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Good version.
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I played this app every day on break but the new addition of all the ads has ruined the experience. I'm pry gonna have to download a different one now.
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Fun App
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Great game love it.
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Have used it constantly for a number of years now!
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Works great. Only annoying thing is when there is obscene ads at the bottom when I'm playing or right after a game when it tricks you into clicking a pop up ad.


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Survey shows New Orleans students enjoy new, healthy foods
With childhood obesity on the rise, school food is under constant scrutiny. Through the leadership of the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans (ESY NOLA), school cafeterias across the city are being transformed to promote healthy eating and balanced diets. This change begs the question: what do the students think of their new school food?
For the 2010-2011 school year, the Prevention Research Center (PRC) at Tulane University partnered with Tulane dietetic interns and ESY NOLA to assess students' perceptions of new, healthier foods that are being served in their cafeterias. The results of nearly 500 surveys showed that, on average, 75 percent of all students liked the taste of the new, healthy dishes being offered.
"The data was in no way surprising," said ESYNOLA Chef Teacher April Neujean. "Rather it confirmed what we believed all along, that if you allow students to grow it and cook it, they will eat it!"
Overall, the youngest children, grades Kindergarten, First and Second, are most accepting of the new healthier foods, 3rd through 5th grades are in the middle, and 7th and 8th grades are the hardest to please. However, older students are the most likely to eat any given meal again. Peer influence affected answers given by 4-7th grade the most, and kindergarten-2nd grade the least.
The three schools that incorporated school gardening and cooking classes into their curriculum, in addition to the healthy foods, have 10-to-16 percent higher scores for students reporting that they like the looks, smell and taste of their healthy foods when compared to the school that has not incorporated such classes. This preliminary data is supportive of the idea that teaching students about food and healthy eating can help increase their acceptance of healthier foods.
"It is our hope that by providing these classes at such a young age, that this will give students a strong foundation for improved health throughout their lifetime," said Neujean.
The most popular dishes according to taste were Cajun chicken with brown rice pilaf, macaroni and cheese, chicken stew and brown rice and a turkey burger. The turkey burger also did exceptionally well in the observational data: it was in the top performers for minimal plate waste (almost all the food was eaten), students enjoyed eating the dish, and peer influence did not affect students' perceptions of the meal.
Contrary to popular belief, results indicate that brown rice and the replacement of turkey for ground beef were widely accepted by the students. Two local dishes ended up in the bottom four, all receiving scores of below 52 percent in terms of acceptance. Only 45 percent of students would ever want Jambalaya again, and less than 60 percent of students liked the taste of Cajun baked fish. Researchers hypothesize that the reason for these results might be the fact that many students prefer the way their family makes these dishes.
Tulane Dietetic interns designed the survey instrument, which included both a quantitative and an observational (qualitative) section. Four New Orleans schools participated in the surveys, which were conducted by the dietetic interns. These schools were: Samuel Green, Langston Hughes, Arthur Ashe and John Dibert. The three schools with cooking and/or gardening classes are Ashe, Langston Hughes and Green. Dibert has a garden but no gardening or cooking classes.
"We hope this data will encourage other schools to make similar changes to school food partnered with school gardens and hands-on food education programs," said Neujean.
Story by Laura Dean, MPH,
Dietetic Intern Class of 2011
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