Friedman:
But what if the U.S. or Israel feels it has to strike Iran’s nuclear program in the middle of what could be the worst energy winter since 1973? And what if Iran responds by firing at U.S. or Western oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, where Qatar, the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas, resides? Oil and gas prices will go into the stratosphere. So, Iran suddenly has new leverage: Hit us and you bankrupt the world.
Friedman thinks that there will be a gas crunch this winter. Prices will jump (=inflation).
I dreamt we were visiting my grandfather's house in Jaszbereny. An elderly Christian couple was living in it. We were leaving I gave them all my money and they asked more for scratching something. Not a full nightmare but woke rather bitter. Hungary's population is lower than in my grandfather's time, and there has been little new construction, especially in provincial towns. Elderly Christian couples live and maintain the disappeared Jew's homes.
The pic may refer to Hemingway's Old Mand and the Sea, by an artist from India. Or maybe a Jungian dream, shared by all humanity. Figures of lions are omnipresent in the Antiquity.
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