market s watching very closely. neil: we haven t seen much budge on inflation with all the rate hikes we ve seen. i know it takes time, jo nash jonas, but do we have to endure this a year or more from here? because it s a year or more from the point of the increases back in march, not a year or more from the first signs of inflation. yeah, that s the real question the federal reserve s waiting for. we re already at this high elevated price level, is it going to keep cascading higher or level off at this hay level? no one s expecting prices to go back to where they were, it s this rate of change we want to see dropping down. i don t know it s going to drop that fast because the consumer hasn t snapped yet, and that s what the federal reserve is trying to do, break the back of the consumer so they stop demanding things at these high prices. the problem is more complicated than just the energy market. basically, they created a lot of money, they gave it to everybody during covid, tril
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To try to shed some light on the situation and move beyond panic and media sensationalism, I recently spoke with Yohan Tengra, a political analyst and healthcare specialist based in Mumbai.
For India, he says: We will never know statistically if the infections have really increased. To be certain, we would need data of symptomatic people who have tested positive with either a virus culture test or PCR that uses 24 cycles or less, ideally under 20. He adds that
India is experiencing mainly asymptomatic cases: For example, in Mumbai, they declared two days back that of total cases in the city,
by Colin Todhunter / May 4th, 2021
Western media outlets are currently paying a great deal of attention to India and the apparent impact of COVID-19. The narrative is that the coronavirus is ripping through the country – people are dying, cases are spiralling out of control and hospitals are unable to cope.
There does indeed seem to be a major problem in parts of the country. However, we need to differentiate between the effects of COVID-19 and the impacts of other factors. We must also be very weary of sensationalist media reporting which misrepresents the situation.
For instance, in late April, the