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The Fed hiked rates above 5%, and yet the US economy doesn't break. Back in 2022 already, the yield curve inverted and it has stayed inverted ever since. The lags looked relatively short, and the US economy was going through a soft patch in 2023 when it became consensus that a recession was gonna happen. Something even broke in markets (regional banks), and ...
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Russia’s crude oil revenues declined substantially in 2022 and 2023 as voluntary and formal sanctions were imposed in response to the invasion of Ukraine. The formal sanctions imposed at the end of 2022 comprised an embargo on Russian crude oil imports and a price cap that allowed countries not participating in the sanctions the use of Western maritime ...