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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
Economics
Economics
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Time Warner Center in New York City, August 6, 2008. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
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Logo of the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) in a model of the C919 at the research center of Comac in Shanghai. July 4, 2014. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Bank of America branch in Chicago's Financial District, November 1, 2011. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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A young boy views a private swimming pool at a luxury residential area in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, China, Febuary 15, 2005. (Cancan Chu/GettyImages)
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A soldier from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force carries an 84mm Carl Gustav rocket launcher during Exercise Iron Fist 2014, a joint-exercise with US Marines and sailors at Camp Pendleton on February 9, 2014. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Chinese workers check compressors at Dalian Bingshan Group Co., Ltd. on September 10, 2013 in Dalian of Liaoning Province, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
