PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country’s political crisis.

The unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple the new government, with Lecornu saying that meant he could not do his job. The announcement drove stocks and the euro sharply lower.

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      The US is self toppling. Give it a another year. Cooking the books doesn’t work when you’re leveraged beyond what you can cook.

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        How do you have multiple quarterly earnings at -40%+ and still go up!? The stock market is make belief and bullshit that my retirement is tied to it…

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      The government has been in various stages of collapse ever since the leftist won big and Macron allied with the right to prevent them from taking power.

      This is just yet one more item of fallout.

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    That is the good and the bad with French politics.

    On the one hand, if the French government tries to f-ck up the people, those people put down the whole country in no time. Sometimes it looks like they have a general strike set up within five minutes.

    On the other hand, when they actually need painful reforms (like the do now), it’s the same.