Rent, food and health insurance are driving inflation
**Health insurance is up 28% in the past year -- the largest increase ever**
Rent is up 7.2% in the past year -- the largest increase since 1982.
Groceries are up 13% in past year (flour, turkey and butter up the most ever)
Martin Wolf: In an era of world disorder, how might a liberal trading order be sustained? “With great difficulty” is the answer. Yet so much is at stake for so many that everybody who has influence must try https://t.co/qpiBfqbPsT
Clarence Thomas writes, in a concurring opinion, that the Supreme Court should reconsider Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell — the rulings that now protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.
In our latest global outlook video, @AgatheDemarais and @CodyFeldman discuss how the war in Ukraine is fuelling global food insecurity. Watch here: https://t.co/zlfVEPfngY
Russia's War in Ukraine will fuel global food insecurity
• Beyond hit to wheat exports, supplies of fertilisers - which are key to agriculture - will also decrease
• Most countries around the world import significant quantities of fertilisers from Russia or Ukraine
🇫🇷 Même scénario qu’en 2017 en #France avec un face-à-face Macron - Le Pen pour le 2e tour. Confortable avance du président à ce stade, mais méfiance...
Que fera l’électorat d’Eric Zemmour (7%) et celui de Mélenchon (20%) ? (1/3)
“Rich countries have the means…to support large parts of the workforce…By contrast, in emerging markets and low-income countries…the trade-offs are more painful.”
Global economics will never be the same—but not in the ways you might think. https://t.co/t6GlQO6dAh
Despite the historic @UN vote condemning #Russia, the world is splintering. Two-thirds of people live in a country that is neutral or leans towards Russia but 70% of the today's global GDP remains #West-leaning.
Daily chart – Who are Russia’s supporters? https://t.co/y4Y9YxTYZi
Astronaut @astro_matthias of @esa (joining us live from the International @Space_Station!) explains how projects like the ISS can inspire people to tackle major problems like climate change.
#DavosAgenda
För 70 years, international economic relations were shaped by their own rules. Not anymore. My column on the geopolitical conquest of economics, and how to respond to it. @ProSyn https://t.co/woHZh4mG8L
“it has been galling to many experts to see rich countries snaffling doses of AstraZeneca from the Serum Institute... Britain has already taken 4.5m doses, and recently sent an envoy to India to try to secure another 5.5m.” https://t.co/R7c4ztbA3h
Nous testons cette semaine un projet pilote qui devrait permettre de voyager sans faire de test PCR ni de vaccin 🤗
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We are testing a pilot project this week that should allow travel without a PCR test nor vaccine 🤗
https://t.co/CQ3hQ3CfQX
Between humility, healthy competition and institutional reform, there were more similarities than differences in the words of world leaders last month during the World Economic Forum's #davosagenda. This may sound naïve or innocent…https://t.co/q30D8BH8KK https://t.co/hVfwRc7J2G