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Fortune
Jason Ma

'Fantasy economics' hit reality: Boomer vs. Gen Z fight roils France as pension costs drive debt crisis and education cuts that fuel student riots

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Bond market turmoil and the simultaneous mass student protests at French schools are not a coincidence and point to the generational tradeoffs made in government spending, according to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.

In a Substack post on Thursday, the economics professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center acknowledged that the high debt and deficits driving up French bond yields lately are not unique to the eurozone’s second largest economy.

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