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%43 inflation for Iran this year.

2019-10-07

#Iran's Statistical Center has reported that inflation reached nearly 43 percent in the 12-month period ending in August, exceeding IMF forecasts. This week's graphic breaks down the country's rising #inflation and resulting unrest: https://t.co/rNdrOcJEJP
— Geopolitical Futures (@GPFutures) October 6, 2019

Posted by:3dc

#4 Consumer goods like gas and food are heavily subsidized in Iran. More inflation means more $ubsidies for butter and les$ for guns. It also makes black market missile & nuclear widgets more expensive.

Posted by: The peanut gallery 2019-10-07 16:35

#3 You do have to wonder how long the regime can survive things like this.

Any Iranian with any savings or investments at all just saw 43% of it go up in smoke. Including the kleptocrats in the IRG and elsewhere.

Posted by: Tom 2019-10-07 11:58

#2 Great

Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2019-10-07 10:51

#1 If we aren't careful the Fed will try some of the things the Iranians have done to get inflation

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-07 06:58

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