Five Critical Factors Why Prices Will Stay High For Years

 

Five Critical Factors Why Prices Will Stay High For Years   There's an irrational hope that inflation will quickly reverse and prices will return to 2019 levels- just as soon as Putin leaves Ukraine... and the global supply chain dysfunction works itself out. But this is wishful thinking.

Palestinians: US Weakness Facilitates The Rise Of Jihad And Fundamentalism   Like many Palestinians and Arabs, the Iranian-backed Hamas movement that controls the Gaza Strip sees the Russia-Ukraine war as evidence of the weakness of the Biden administration and the end of the status of the US as the world's sole superpower.     Unprecedented Wave Of Gasoline Thefts Across The Country   From coast to coast, gas stations are being targeted, often being done by organized groups. In other cases, criminals are going to private homes and are actually drilling directly into gas tanks in order to steal gasoline.     Fall of the Golden Arches Theory: Enriching Tyrants Doesn't Prevent War   Towards the end of the 20th century, Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, observed: "No two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other."