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The unending nightmare of Gaza
The bombs rain down on Gaza city and the rest of the strip compounding the nightmare that Gaza is already for the people living there. Gaza, measuring 375 square kilometers (145 square miles) is home to around 2 million Palestinians, more than half of them refugees. Since 2007, the besieged enclave has been under aContinue reading “The unending nightmare of Gaza”
Some notes on the world economy now
These notes were based on an interview with me by Swiss-based journalist Thomas Schneider in German in early May. https://www.facebook.com/klaus.klamm.9235/ A sugar rush or economic recovery? The IMF foresees a strong economic recovery. The assumption is that the virus can be controlled to such an extent that lockdowns and social distancing are no longer necessary.Continue reading “Some notes on the world economy now”
Inflation and financial risk
Is inflation coming back in the major capitalist economies? As the US economy (in particular) and other major economies begin to rebound from the COVID slump of 2020, the talk among mainstream economists is whether inflation in the prices for goods and services in those economies is going to accelerate to the point where centralContinue reading “Inflation and financial risk”
