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France has stalled
GDP fell 0.1% this summer, after zero in the spring and −0.2% this winter. Elsewhere, 5.4 billion euros vanished from Binance in twenty minutes, and the Assembly invented a tax per gigabyte.
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On Friday, Insee, the statistics office, put a figure on what everyone feels at the till: gross domestic product fell 0.1% in the third quarter, after zero in the second and −0.2% in the first. Three quarters without growth, while the euro zone grows 0.6%. “The French economy has stalled,” admitted Roland Lescure, who swears it “will hit the wall” without the 2027 budget, voted on tomorrow.
Twenty minutes, five billion
The same weekend, Binance reopened withdrawals. On 29 October, hackers emptied its wallets of 6.3 billion dollars, 5.4 billion euros, moved across ten blockchains in twenty minutes. The FBI blames North Korea and its TraderTraitor unit. Three billion have been frozen, the platform promises to make users whole. The biggest heist in history, without a crowbar.
What changed yesterday
And at home, since yesterday, diesel costs up to 21 cents less, the State selling its stocks at cost; gas is up 6.6%, supplementary pensions 1.4%, and no one can be evicted until 31 March. A country at a standstill, but not its meters. Which, the country or its people, has really stopped moving?
Based on Insee, Le Monde, FBI, franceinfo and Ouest-France