If all the French are following with anxiety the curve of new cases of Covid-19, this is another graphic that the ministry of Economy and Finance monitors with anxiety : that of the evolution of the rate of the obligation assimilable du Trésor (OAT) to ten years, the main instrument used by the State to borrow money to his creditors in france and abroad.

In a country that lives on credit, the level of this rate was already before the beginning of the epidemic are of great importance. This is even more the case now, since it is through debt that will be financed in the tens of mil…