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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Iran has many problems. The U.S. has bombed its nuclear facilities, and Israel has damaged or...
The years 2020 and 2021 will be remembered for the pandemic, lockdowns, and financial chaos they brought. Will 2022 be remembered for Dustbowl conditions and a shocking shortage of food? Three months into the year, this is starting to look increasingly likely.
Russia has just won a Pyrrhic victory in Ukraine, and if you are not sure what that is, just ask Vladimir Putin. Better still - ask someone else, because Putin won’t want to talk about it.
A Pyrrhic victory is a battle where one side technically is the winner, but it has paid such a high price that in reality it suffered a major defeat. The term comes from Pyrrhus, a king who defeated the Romans in a battle at Asculum in 279 BCE; Pyrrhus won the battle but suffered terrible losses in the process. Russia’s attack on Ukraine brings that to mind.
As a group, politicians have their own way of explaining the news. They play down serious problems and paint a much brighter picture of the future than is warranted.
Just when you thought that all those crazy diseases out there were finally going away, guess what: A new one may be emerging. This time it’s bird flu.
Soaring food prices and shortages are not new. They date back to Biblical times, and we hear about them all too often, but they are always out there -- never in our backyards. Now we’re being told that they can happen in America and may in fact be just around the corner.
If you still believe that inflation is transitory, clearly you haven’t been doing the shopping lately. Not only is it not transitory, but it’s getting worse.
