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Liquidity: How Much Money Iran Printed Between 2011 and 2019?
Banking and Finance

Liquidity: How Much Money Iran Printed Between 2011 and 2019?

The Central Bank of Iran’s data shows that the volume of liquidity between 2011 and 2019  increased by about 1.6 trillion tomans. Furthermore, the Statistics Center of Iran’s data on national bank accounts shows that Iran’s GDP between 2018 and 2019 has not changed. Meanwhile, liquidity, during this

Too Much Liquidity: The Root of Iran's 2018 Economic Crisis
Banking and Finance

Too Much Liquidity: The Root of Iran's 2018 Economic Crisis

In his first term in office (2013-2017), President Hassan Rouhani had a relatively successful record in the area of macroeconomics. His administration’s highest achievement was controlling the inflation rate, which his team managed for two consecutive years to keep in single digits for the first tim

Liquidity: What is It and Why It Matters?
Banking and Finance

Liquidity: What is It and Why It Matters?

Nowadays liquidity is one of the most widely used terms in the media. The average person may know that it causes inflation and lowers production, but may perhaps not really know what it truly means. Liquidity is a set of monetary assets that are either cash, meaning it is immediately available like

Iran 2019 protests: highest casualties in the poorest of the poor provinces
Economic Sector

Iran 2019 protests: highest casualties in the poorest of the poor provinces

Many news reports have suggested that Iran’s November 2019 protests erupted mainly in disadvantaged and marginal areas of the country. But to what extent does this statement correspond to the official data? Amnesty International announced on December 2, 2019, that at least 208 people had been killed