Month: January 2020

Calm Down

Calm Down

On Friday night, January 17, 2020, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron went to the theater Bouffes du Nord to see a play. Given the public invective against Macron and his attempts at retirement reform, their date night seems to have been a defiant effort not to 

Macron’s Pension Reform: About As Interesting as it Sounds . . .

Macron’s Pension Reform: About As Interesting as it Sounds . . .

A first pass at it. The stakes are high, and France is in a certain amount of turmoil. Is Macron’s retirement reform a necessary means to bring pension funds to fiscal health and to mend the deficiencies of the current system, or is it, as