Category Archives: Politics
One bomb raises the cost of doing business like messed up legislation. #Cost_of_Doing_Biz
Two weeks ago, REBEL ECONOMY blogged about how one bomb in the Sinai adversely affects the Egyptian economy. President Sisi has his eye on a mega $8-billion expansion of the canal that aims to double daily traffic by 2023 and … Continue reading
This Disease Needs to be Fought with Good Education & Economy
The total terrorism in the region is the fruit of terrorism by authoritarian regimes [across the Middle East & North African region]~Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi On October 28th, Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi of Tunisia offered his perspective to the U.S. Institute for … Continue reading
Economic growth doesn’t translate as citizen growth. #GDP #Wellbeing
The World Bank’s Middle East & North Africa division released a report “Inequality, Uprisings, and Conflict in the Arab World” (included below along with the report link) that confirmed what many non-economists living in Tunisia, Syria, Yemen and Egypt suspected … Continue reading
Rightly, or Wrongly, Neighbors Are Compared #egypt #Tunisia
For many reasons, we are very excited that the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet WON the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize on October 8th –pleasantly surprised since Pope Francis and other names were well circulated on popular polls without any mention of … Continue reading
United Nations General Assembly Speeches Underline #SyriaCrisis
The Annual United Nations General Assembly Summit is convening in New York. The good news: the UN Secretary General –the highest office within the multilateral organization–Ban Ki Moon expressed support by looking forward to raising the Palestine flag like other … Continue reading
UNCTAD says Gaza Could be Uninhabitable by 2020 #BDS
…no human being who visits can remain untouched by the terrible devastation that one sees here in Gaza… the devastation of peoples’ livelihoods is 10 times more shocking~ United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, during a … Continue reading
Algeria Shows Symptoms of Resource Curse
“Oil settles below $39 a barrel for the first time since Feb. 2009″~MarketWatch Given the dramatic decrease in oil prices, Saudi Arabia could cut investment spending, estimated to be about $102 billion dollars this year, by about 10 percent or … Continue reading
Economic Impact of Iran Sanctions, or “PersiaStroika”
“Our countries (United States and Iran) can reach a detente — or ‘Persia-Stroika’ if you will” ~ Jon, Stewart of The Daily Show [Note: “Perestroika”, or “openness”, was a term coined by Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986, to describe … Continue reading
SELL, SELL, SELL … “Bye-Bye” Reform Ceiling #Saudi
Greetings PITAconsumers… and best wishes to those of you observing the practice of abstaining from food, drink, and smoking 😉 from sunrise to sunset. Fasting has begun on the first day of the Ramadan month! But for those fasting and … Continue reading
Yemen Has Two Options
Once upon a time, there were seven brothers. Mother Earth blessed the first six with gold. Father time buried the youngest one’s treasures very deep beneath the sand. Mothers and fathers worry about sibling rivalries. Sheba took care of the … Continue reading
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