On the night of 25 to 26 October (1) 1917, the cruiser Aurore, whose sailors had mutinied, fired blank on the Petrograd Winter Palace (St. Petersburg) of the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. The biggest upheaval in the social order of the twentieth century began... We know what…
par Serge Grossvak Lorsque l'Europe dit NON c'est Niet. Quelque soient les proportions, les populations Catalanes ont manifesté d'intenses engagements politiques, ainsi qu'une divergence forte. A cette crise et à ce défi démocratique, l'Europe n'a répondu que par une main de fer à peine camouflée d'un g…
You undoubtedly heard about Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017). In short, it would be difficult to think of him as a man of the left. It is none the less that his analysis "The Role of the West in the Complex Post-Hegemonic World", at EFNI 2012 , impressed me by lucidity and…
The Money Project , founded in 2015, develops original infographics for money. Below one of them. Beware of vertigo! COMPARING THE WORLD'S MONEY AND MARKETS each square of this size represents €100 billion BITCOIN The value of all bitcoins is roughly equal to $5 billion today. The m…
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy, but they try it and that is why we have so much problems with some financial models.
(if the counter display is blocked, visit Natonial Debt Clock directly) An interactive overview of government debt across the planet. Scroll down the clock window to choose a country and see the accumulation of interest of its debt in real time. Do not ask to whom the world owes so much…
Click in the image below to see the real map in a new window. Have fun exploring data by age and year. Curiosity: the visualization shows the data for the population aged 15 to 74, whereas at age 15, you are supposed to be still in school while at age +65 you are already retired! Even if the data…
Eurostat data on total average hourly labor costs. Total labour costs Total labor costs cover wages and non-wage costs (employers' social contributions plus taxes minus subsidies). Eurostat - Total labour costs Social contributions and other labour costs Employers' social contributions and…
1956 a rabattu toutes les cartes géopolitiques pour les décennies à venir. En Hongrie, l’Armée rouge fonce sur Budapest. L'empire soviétique vaccille. En Egypte, les troupes françaises, anglaises et israéliennes prennent d'assaut le canal de Suez avec, comme objectif, d'abattre Nasser. Retour sur l'année …