What Is Debt? We Tested the Economic Knowledge of the French at the Poissy Market

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Without pretending to be scientific, our observation is without appeal: eight out of ten people do not know how to answer or feel concerned about the public debt in FranceThe town hall of Poissy, a middle-class suburb in the Paris region, overlooks a few stalls in the open air and the covered market of the Place de la République. In front of the tricolor flags of the Town Hall led by the right and the center, a terrace allows to take a small cof…