Real #GDP growth in #Estonia will amount to 2.3% in 2026 and to 2.5% in 2027, according to the Finance Ministry's latest #forecast. Under a baseline scenario, annual #inflation will reach 4.0% in 2026 and 2.7% in 2027.
https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-gdp-to-grow-2-3-in-2026-finance-ministry/
What to eat today? No, I can't afford that. Not this, it has HFC in it. A ramen with enough salt in it for 17 lifetimes? Uh, no.
[Goes out, looks for tasty tree bark and weeds.]
#Trump broke it, now the #EU has to fix it? Make it make sense 🤦🏼♀️
Military planners from about 30 nations will hold talks next week on making the #StraitOfHormuz #secure for shipping, the British government said Thursday, a day after Trump called on other countries to “build up some delayed courage” & reopen the crucial sea route.
#accountability #idiocracy #IranWar #US #Iran #Israel #war ##law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/world/uk-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-talks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Good morning to readers. #Oil prices have surpassed $108 per #barrel (+50% compared to pre-#war).
Sina helps Iranians to live amid sanctions and spiking #inflation by exchanging rials to #bitcoins.
Since the war began, his digital #business has to navigate nationwide internet blackouts. https://www.iranwar.news/p/crypto-a-lifeline-in-iran-goes-dark
As in "hmm, maybe I should buy that XYZ I have been thinking about for a couple of years because the price keeps going up"
[Facts cont]
Last year, in fact, #US economic growth decelerated under #Trump to a still-respectable 2.1%, partly because the 43-day federal government #shutdown slashed growth from October through December.
Nor has #inflation vanished. The #Labor Department’s #consumer price index was up 2.4% in February compared with a year earlier. It’s still above the #FederalReserve’s 2% target.
CLAIM: “We were a dead & crippled country after the last administration & made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far, with no inflation.”
THE FACTS: This is a standard #Trump claim. But the #economy he inherited was far from weak. In 2024, the last year of the #Biden presidency, #US #GDP grew 2.8%, adjusted for #inflation, faster than any wealthy country in the world except Spain. It also expanded at a healthy rate from 2021 through 2023.
„Wenn Preise steigen, aber Sozialleistungen nicht angepasst werden, sinkt die Kaufkraft. Wirtschaftlich ist das nichts anderes als eine Kürzung durch die Hintertür.“
https://www.gegen-hartz.de/news/buergergeld-kuerzung-2026-kommt-aber-anders
#grundsicherung #armut #regelsatz #nullrunde #inflation #nichtwütendgenug
False claims #Trump made as he addressed the nation about #Iran
Trump “mischaracterized” core elements of the #US #economy [lied] & “stretched” the facts [lied] in claiming to have toppled Iran’s government as he addressed the nation Wednesday night in a time of soaring #GasPrices & persistent #inflation.
#gaslighting #propaganda #TrumpsWar #IranWar #law #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-fact-focus-gas-prices-inflation-821374c3c249ad0abf471843ce8e9557
President Donald Trump's address to the nation on the Iran war did not always hew to the facts. In his remarks Wednesday night, Trump declared that he inherited a “dead and crippled country” and delivered an economy with “no inflation.” But in 2024, the last year of Joe Biden's presidency, the economy grew faster than any wealthy country in the world except Spain. And inflation has not been eliminated. Trump also depicted Iran's current leaders as less radical than the ones killed in the war. But the new supreme leader is viewed as even more hard-line than the one before, and Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has grown even more ascendant.
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