Category: economy
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The basket case and the anarcho-economist
It’s strange that politicians are there to tell you how brilliant they are during the boom years, but have excuses for all the other years that economies have struggled. But the boom years themselves are manufactured by those same politicians when they get into power. Millei of Argentina, has to a degree come to the conclusion…
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Is Lebanon close to having an economy again?
Lebanon is in a mess, but is it close to getting out of this mess? Lebanon’s economy decelerated by 37 percent between 2018 and 2021, real gross domestic production (GDP) has fallen by 2.6 percent in 2022. But the most pressing question for the Lebanese is whether the economy is starting to build an element…
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Part two Egypt’s political conversation
Egypt is opening the door to the political possibility of an open discussion about where the country goes next. The opposition parties who have members in jail are negotiating with the Egyptian government of Abdel Fatah el-Sissi, and among their demands is the release of dissenters. So Egypt’s political opposition are preparing for a national…