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Soaring Gas Prices Fuel June Inflation

It is hard to feel good about this report, but with wage growth slowing sharply in the last six months to around 4.0 percent (compared to 3.4 percent in 2019), it’s hard to see how an inflation rate north of 9.0 percent can be sustained. The overall CPI was up …

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Biden’s Israel, Saudi Arabia Trip Draws Attention To Looming Threat Of A Nuclear Iran

When Arab leaders sit down with US President Joe Biden in Riyadh this week, one topic they will no doubt be eager to raise is the threat posed by Iran and how Tehran’s nuclear ambitions can be thwarted or contained. During his campaign for the presidential nomination in 2020, Biden …

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Reflections On The Mediterranean Region – Analysis

The Mediterranean region in question The Mediterranean is etymologically the “sea in the middle of the land“. (1) The Romans called it Mare Magnum (‘Great Sea’) or Mare Internum (‘Internal Sea’) and, starting with the Roman Empire, Mare Nostrum (‘Our Sea’). The term Mare Mediterrāneum appears later in the work …

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