During the long years of Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq, economic data were treated as top national secrets, and the revelation of such data to unauthorized persons could bring the death penalty. Therefore, it was only after the fall of the regime that the extent of Iraq’s enormous...

As this is MEMRI’s 10th year of operations, we are proud to have implemented new initiatives and projects. Such a project has been the launching of this economic blog in the first week of July of last year. Initially, we referred to the gaps in Western media coverage of economic news and...

Readers are now familiar with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s oft-repeated statement that the Holocaust did not take place, and are aware of the conference of “historians and scholars” he convened in Tehran last year to prove his point. A few days ago, in a televised speech from the city...

The Iraqi government, with help of air cover and air strikes by coalition forces, has launched a major assault, codenamed “Galloping Horses” on Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia, otherwise known as Jeish al-Mahdi [The Army of al-Mahdi (al-Mahdi is the Shiite Messiah, a hidden savior...

Officials from the US Treasury and the governments of Abu Dhabi and Singapore. The US Treasury Department took two important decisions last week that could have significant impact on the economies at both ends of the Persian Gulf. The first decision dealt with sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)....