Category: France

  • France, Turmoil, Credit Spreads

    France, Turmoil, Credit Spreads

    (The following was first published on Cumberland Advisors’ website and via LISTSERV. For details, visit https://www.cumber.com/.) The political disruption in France has implications for the euro and for world financial markets. France is the second largest economy in Europe; Germany is first.  It was one of the original six countries that participated in the Maastricht…

  • France Again!

    By David R. Kotok, July 14, 2024 (The following was first published on Cumberland Advisors’ website and via LISTSERV. For details, visit https://www.cumber.com/.) The news about any shooting attack on any candidate for any American public office, whether a presidential candidate or a local politician, is disturbing and distressing. There isn’t much more to say…

  • France, by David R. Kotok, June 21, 2024

    (The following was first published on Cumberland Advisors’ website and via LISTSERV. For details, visit https://www.cumber.com/.) “How can you govern a country with two hundred thirty-eight varieties of cheese?” “• François Mitterrand, President of France, 1981–1995 Henry Kissinger to Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1972: “What do you think of the French revolution?” Zhou: “Too…