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Tit-for-tat: Tel-Aviv after an airstrike from Iran last week.
ASHURA

Iran is not Venezuela

It is easier to start wars than to end them

  • John Davenport
5 min read
Fuel prices have also fallen this month, which might have helped keep inflation in check, although it remains to be seen what effect the rand’s weakness will have had. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

Middle East crisis: Why aren’t oil prices much higher?

Lower prices are good insofar as inflation is concerned but they suggest that economic troubles lie ahead

  • Sarah Smit
4 min read