Cyber Power
October 23, 2015
Israel is one of the leading players in the rapidly developing field of cyber, in both the civilian and military spheres. Cyber exports already exceed conventional defence exports
Category: Hamodia- Economica
Shekel strength
October 16, 2015
Yet again, the terror on the streets is having no impact on the Israeli financial system. The shekel’s strength reflects the strong economy — and actually has more to do with global developments than with local ones
Lies and laws
October 9, 2015
The revelations about Volkswagen’s deliberate distortion of emission test results is qualitatively worse than earlier auto industry scandals. But although the companies are guilty, they are not the only ones to blame
Wrong and right
September 27, 2015
It makes sense to use economic data when talking about the economy, but people who quote numbers they don’t understand end up talking nonsense
So far so good
Israeli economy March 20, 2015 Most readers will be very well aware that this Shabbos is rosh chodesh Nisan. Many, however, will be too focused on Pesach preparations to notice that this milestone marks the half-way point for 5775. This is certainly not the place for an explanation as to why Jews have two calendars working simultaneously, so that “the […]
» Read moreDeflation Arrives
Hamodia March 13 For something supposed to have been made impossible in the modern world, deflation has been doing pretty well recently. This economic ‘disease’, which many economists regard as more dangerous than inflation, has been endemic in Japan for some fifteen years, but now it seems to be spreading round the world, especially to Europe. In order to understand […]
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