Will French consumers wake up in 2020?

Are the French riven with anxiety as media reports persist in telling us at a time when pension reform, strikes and demonstrations continue to hog the headlines? Are they confident in their spending capacity and future financial situation as the monthly survey from the national statistics bureau suggests? Leaving aside perception, a number of objective facts should be borne in mind. Unemployment is on a clear downtrend since 2016. Inflation is low. Fiscal choices have been recali...