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Pension Reform, Part Deux: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Pension Reform, Part Deux: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Retirement reform is a third rail in French as it is in American politics. In both countries, the issue is the same: will old age be synonymous with poverty? And the generational aspect (Pay as You Go), that is to say the idea that current 

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