Odd Lots: French Politics Are Leading to a Debt Crisis (Podcast)

Just about everyone is worried about what is going on in France right now: the country’s public finances are in sorry shape and there are fears that the French bond...

By Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway · Bloomberg Markets

Just about everyone is worried about what is going on in France right now: the country’s public finances are in sorry shape and there are fears that the French bond selloff, and the country’s growing debt crisis, might spillover into the rest of Europe. On top of that, the 2027 elections have investors worried: The two leading candidates, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, aren’t seen to be up to the task of taming France’s fiscal turmoil. Shahin Vallée was an advisor to Emmanuel Macron when