Naturally, events in Paris will be on everyone’s minds. In the most simplistic sense, how can journalists go about their daily business as usual? How can Jews quietly prepare for the Sabbath? A march in Dresden illustrates the rising tide of Islamophobia; and what of Hungary’s prime minister railing against immigration?
Economically, we have the seemingly endless cycle of eurozone misery. As ECB President Mario Draghi readies the euro printing presses in a bid to get growth moving and create a bit of inflation, the U.S. is thinking about tightening policy.
China faces a slowdown, the effects of which no one truly understands (because no one truly understands China’s economy), while emerging nations wait to see if they get clobbered by one superpower’s policies or another.
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