europe’s refugee crisis

Estimates suggest that 80 percent of the refugees currently begging entrance to Europe are from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan — countries decimated by decades of Western and war, and the violence of dictatorial regimes like Syria's Bashar al-Assad and the reactionary forces of Islamic State Iraq and Syria. ..

world economy: the return of crisis

The most powerful stimulus, however, came through Federal Reserve, the US central bank, where it remained until 2015, shattering all Fed precedents 22 Fed further bought up the banks holdings of US treasury bonds, flooding the banks with cash. ..

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