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The Head Against The (Debt) Wall

Posted on 5 April 20244 April 2024 by Quentin Toulemonde

This week, my attention was drawn to the publication of the latest report by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), which revealed that the government’s public deficit reached…

Credit or Treat

Posted on 20 October 202319 October 2023 by Quentin Toulemonde

In June of this year, the US Senate reached a last-minute agreement to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, previously capped at a staggering $31.4 trillion. This adjustment allows the government to borrow…

From Resilient to Agile: The New Business Paradigm

Posted on 13 October 202313 October 2023 by Quentin Toulemonde

Over the past four years, our global landscape has faced an interconnected web of economic, social, and geopolitical shifts. These changes are rare, surfacing only a few times each century. To enumerate,…

The 4-Day Workweek: An Enlightened Approach or A Short-Lived Fad?

Posted on 21 June 202321 June 2023 by Quentin Toulemonde

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 back to…

Will the macroeconomic tide sway platforms?

Posted on 1 June 202331 May 2023 by Quentin Toulemonde

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 ‘suppliers’, from…

Dancing on a volcano

Posted on 5 May 20235 May 2023 by Quentin Toulemonde

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 unemployment and…

Avoiding the heart attack

Posted on 28 February 202327 February 2023 by Quentin Toulemonde

Although this blog is relatively recent, keen readers since Day 1 may being to understand that the link between economy and demography is features fairly high in my list of interests. Indeed,…

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