Pinchas Landau writes about Israeli and Global economics, finance and politics
On January 14, I was engaged in writing a newsletter focused on Israeli domestic politics and the upcoming general election. That, however, was interrupted by the dramatic – although, under the circumstances, not wholly unexpected — announcement from the Bank of Israel of an important change in exchange rate policy. In a nutshell, the Bank committed to spending […]
» Read moreThe Middle East is constantly changing, but the single stable constant in the region is its complexity. This is true not just of the region as a whole, but also of the countries within it. Changes within countries, the way a country responds to changes around it, and the interaction between these country-specific changes, create regional change.
» Read moreSo much has happened in this remarkable year of 2020, but it is only two-thirds complete. Given the current frenetic pace of events, that seems to be speeding up all the time, the coming months can be expected to demand constant and full attention, in the Middle East and around the world.
» Read moreMonday, July 20, 2020, was a red-letter day in the history of the Israeli economy. In the narrower context of the Israeli energy sector, it was the most important day since the initial discovery of offshore gas in the late 1990s.
» Read more11th June 2020 After discussing the question of “Where are we now?” in the previous newsletter, this issue moves on to the second question, namely “Whence?” or, more colloquially, “How did we get here?” The question has many facets, which this newspaper defines as B] Domestic Politics, where it translates into “how did we arrive at such a weird coalition […]
» Read more28th May 2020 This issue is tasked with picking up many threads after long disruption. Although we have been in contact via various virtual channels and will continue to be, only now has it become possible to write a coherent analysis addressing the three cardinal questions raised in the headline: Where are we now? This question relates to every sphere […]
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