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The World’s Economic Outlook Turns Grim
Between inflation, war, gas and Covid — and the specter of more problems on the horizon — it’s hard to be optimistic for the rest of 2022.
Here we go again.
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Just when we thought we were out of the worst of the pandemic’s main economic challenges, stuff got weirder. Now, thanks to a combination of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, rising inflation and more Covid-19 cases, countries have their own unique cocktails of challenges and weak spots to contend with.
Let’s take a spin around the world in a few charts.