Archive for February, 2012

World Bank: the end of the Chinese model?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

  China will have to change its business model. In a report released Monday in Beijing, entitled "China 2030: building a society with high incomes, modern, harmonious and creative", the World Bank predicted that the 10% annual growth in recent years will halve over the past twenty next. ...

Warren Buffett's estate finally found remains secret

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

  Warren Buffett's succession is assured. The famous American investor wrote in his traditional annual letter to shareholders. Except we do not yet know who will replace him precisely at the head of Berkshire Hathaway, the giant financial investment payday loans. The board chose the elect, but the secret remains ...

Anne-Marie Couderc, "Presstalis can reform"

Saturday, February 25th, 2012

  LE FIGARO. - After years of blocking reform of the set was finally adopted. What is it? Anne-Marie Couderc. - The objective is to adapt supply to demand from readers, while there are currently averages in each store at a time over 50% returns and 20% of ...

How do other countries compensate their unemployed

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

  A wind of change blowing through all unemployment compensation systems in Europe, despite their great diversity. And the phenomenon does not date from the last crisis. "Since the 1990s, virtually all governments have tightened at some point or other conditions of compensation for the unemployed, partly for ...

The malfunctioning of the tax singled out

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

  The relationship between tax administration and its users have improved in recent years but remain dysfunctional. This is the finding that stands in the Court of Auditors a report that has obtained the Parisien - Aujourd'hui en France Tuesday. After a first report on the subject in October 2011, ...

Port of Marseille: the bastion of the CGT threatened

Monday, February 20th, 2012

  CGT may be the big loser of the port reform. Professional elections that take place Tuesday at the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille (GPMM) could result in the union for the loss of its majority. It would be a revolution after more than sixty-five years of co-management of the ...

Facebook opens its VIP

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

  Facebook has learned from the case "Salman Rushdie". In November 2011, the social network profile was deleted by the author of The Satanic Verses, doubting the real identity of its author. Then when Facebook found, copy of passport in support, that this was the novelist, the start-up asked him ...

Dupont-Aignan advocates the "euro-franc" and the printing presses

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

  Nicolas Dupont-Aignan pulls no punches. "EU leaders are economic criminals" who are trying to rush the Greek people in a "total chaos," he said Wednesday, during the presentation of its 37 proposals for the 2012 presidential election. Before adding that Greece is doomed to leave the eurozone such as ...

Working time: Unions feel shorted

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

  Hocus-pocus, coup, betrayal ... and Socialist Trade Unions slam in chorus the vote "on the sly," Jan. 31 in the Assembly, a provision that amends the labor law. Section 40 of the bill Warsmann simplification of the law provides that "the establishment of a distribution of hours over a ...

The State reaffirms its creed nuclear

Monday, February 13th, 2012

  "The president has asked all operators to put in a position to extend the lifetime of our reactors and our nuclear power plants beyond 40 years," said Eric Besson Sunday at the microphone in Europe 1. To the Minister of Industry, energy policy of France should be good to ...