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Left: Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss attends a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, October 14, 2022, following the sacking of the finance minister in response to a budget that sparked markets chaos. (Daniel Leal/Pool Photo via AP)
Right: Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement after President Isaac Herzog tasks him with forming a new government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on November 13, 2022. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

The Conservative UK politician was prime minister for 50 days until the markets purged her. How long will Israel's PM last?

Oct 11, 2018, 12:33 PM

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Netanyahu’s new Bank of Israel Governor, no questions asked

Amir Yaron, Israel's designated Central Bank Governor (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Amir Yaron is clearly a good bet for the PM -- so what if the public doesn't know the appointee's views on the Israeli economy

Aug 13, 2018, 1:46 PM

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Trump could have saved Erdogan from himself. He kicked him instead.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he attends a national youth foundation event in Ankara, Turkey on February 1, 2018. (Yasin Bulbul/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey’s worsening crisis is due to Erdogan’s megalomania, not Trump’s bullying, but Turks won't see it that way

May 8, 2018, 6:53 PM

The wars of the rosettes: The battle of Barnet

The Battle of Barnet was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England… On 14 April 1471, near Barnet, then a small Hertfordshire town north of London, Edward led the House of York in a fight against the House of Lancaster, which...

Apr 20, 2018, 11:41 AM

Corblimey Corbyn

Avi Gabbai has bravely shown the way, but Corbyn is only a part of a much larger problem. The Israeli Establishment is in deliberate, willful denial over the imminent rise to power of the Hard Left in the UK. Americans...

Mar 25, 2018, 7:30 PM

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Yes, the looming global market crash affects you

Dow Jones Industrial Average INDEXDJX: .DJI as of Mar 23, 2018, 16:47 GMT-4 (screenshot from Google Finance)

The seemingly endless flow of cash for high-tech is about to evaporate: the party's over for everyone

Mar 19, 2018, 12:31 PM

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The fault in Bibi’s perfect budget

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the Knesset vote on the 2017-18 state budget. on December 21, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The 2019 budget has only winners. As always, losses are shared across the board -- and that's a lurking threat

Jan 31, 2018, 2:53 AM

The icebreaker cometh

In light of the obsessive focus on the person of Donald Trump and anything even tangentially linked to him, it is easy to conclude that the entire American nation has lost its mind -- and is dragging much of...

Dec 1, 2017, 1:47 PM

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Things that go HEMP in the night

The Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea, November 29, 2017. (Image provided by the North Korean government, Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea is fine-tuning its strike capability, and, with it, raises the global existential threat

Jul 17, 2017, 2:20 PM

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De-nial is a river in London

Israel is not paying attention to the new political instability of the UK or its unpleasant implications for the Jews

About Me

Pinchas Landau is an economic and financial analyst, serving as a consultant to major financial institutions in Israel and abroad on domestic and global developments.