Three Snapshots From France: Planes, Climate and Pharrell Williams

The state of the economy can feel very different depending on where you’re sitting.

A Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet at the Paris Air Show.Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg

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After last week’s Viva Tech, Paris hosted not one but three junkets this week, enough to hearten hoteliers, pack out restaurants, and panic economists who blame events like Beyonce and Taylor Swift concerts for keeping inflation stubbornly high.