Pushing the Envelope – can paper mail fight back?
Quentin Toulemonde This week’s musings took root while leafing through an article in the esteemed French daily, Les Echos. It unveiled an alarming 9% surge in fraudulent bank transfers in France in…
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Home Advantage?
As we dive into this week’s discussion, our focus shifts to remote work, examining its implications for businesses and employees alike. Remember the dynamics of traditional office life – the…
The Swiss Paradox: A Kids’ Paradise, Yet a Working Couple’s Nightmare
As I have often written (here or here for example), demography is a fascinating subject whose impact on economy is complex and wide-ranging. Indeed, demography, while often overlooked, plays a…
The 4-Day Workweek: An Enlightened Approach or A Short-Lived Fad?
The idea of a 4-day workweek is certainly not a new one. The conversation around it started as far back as the 1950s, with academic papers on the topic dating…
A Brave New World?
As I meandered through the opening chapters of my current read, Peter Zeihan’s “The End of the World is Just the Beginning” (a book now featured in My Library), my…
My 10 ‘Beliefs’ on ChatGPT
In recent days, I have been attempting to take stock of my 2 months (which seemed much longer!) of using the GPT-4 engine. From this reflection, I have drawn 10…
Will the macroeconomic tide sway platforms?
In the high-stakes race of start-ups, scalable ideas have traditionally held the winning ticket. This trend has been even stronger in the case of ‘platform-based’ businesses which connect ‘customers’ with…
‘On the radio’
I have already, on several occasions, shared on this blog my perplexity in the face of the economic context in which we currently live. On one hand, an inflation that…
Dancing on a volcano
We have been going through a paradoxical economic period for several months now. At first glance, the situation in many developed countries has never seemed so good, with historically low…
A Chinese game, in theory
This week, an article in the Financial Times caught my attention. In essence, the piece highlights the growing trend of highly educated young Chinese individuals with increasing career aspirations. However,…