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fahmi quadir, founder and cio of safkhet capital.urn our attention to what is happening in russia. the bank of russia surprising markets with a 50 basis point hike. it has word -- it has warned geopolitical risks is fueling inflation in russia. joining us is polina kurdyavko. let's talk about the hurry the governor is in right now. how much of a hurry is she in and why you think she is in such a hurry? polina: thanks for having me again. those two years feel like distant memories. we set a 50 basis hike was likely ahead of the consensus, but the key is if you are combining the pace of economic recovery and risks, the normalization of monetary policy is worth it. if you remember, we are targeting -- the central bank is targeting between 5% to 6% inflation rate, 4% inflation rate versus the current five to 6%. to reach their target of 1% to 2% real rate, they should embark on a hiking cycle. alix: it is alix in new york. i am curious as to one of the few central banks that are into raising rates, how anymore hikes will we see this year

so we can now welcome onto the program fahmi kiddish is a hedge fund manager and short seller who appeared before the pundits dogs why caught investigation committee herself thank you very much for joining us on day to where you business you had your suspicions about why i called long before the scandal broke why well we began researching why are card back and 2017 ahead of the launch of my fund sac capital and the issue with wire card is that over the entirety of its existence it's faced very credible allegations from a variety of stakeholders beginning with its own shareholders various news outlets whether in germany's or domestic media but also foreign media and then we also had various short selling reports so there was a consistency to these allegations there was history there and most times when this happens it's not as though these allegations are being made for fun that there's genuinely some reason that that's driving these sorts of suspicions so very early on anyone could put those pieces together and use that as a reason to investigate further from what you're saying it sounds l

earlier, i spoke to associate professor dalia fahmy from long island university, and asked for her reactionening in the country. shocking that it got to this extent but not really surprising — there have been rumblings on the ground for a couple of years now. king abdullah has been a king who has undertaken quite a bit of economic reforms but not political reforms, especially since the arab spring. for his half—brother, the former crown prince, former because the king removed the title four years into his reign, to be meeting with tribal elders and listening to their discontent with this king, comes at a time whenjordan�*s been hurting economically, the king has been touting reform. jordan's foreign debt has reached $35 billion, which is 95% of the country's gdp. this increase is really due to several challenges happening in the region today — a decrease in tourism, increased spending on the military, the pandemic, and of course the decade—long refugee crisis. sorry to jump in, but given the longlist of problems you listed, and clearly criticism among influential people in the country — but

but dalia fahmy is associate professor of political science at long island university and she says the situation has been building over the last few years. this is really reflective of a domestic internal rift and the wording of the former crown prince about corruption really is reflective of what's been happening economically in jordan you know this king king abdullah has been running or talking about economic reforms not really political reform since he took office and you have a country that's hurting economically it becomes a point where opposition forces are opposition within the government can rise and say we haven't had political reform especially since the arab spring the economic reforms are failing today for example jordan's foreign debt has reached $35000000000.00 it's 90 percent 95 percent of the country's g.d.p. and so what that does is it lends itself to several challenges this is probably not going to lead anywhere but what the king has to do is probably raise some of the austerity measures here it's going to be very difficult because these are the conditions the i.m.f.

dalia fahmy is an associate professor at long island university.now. thank you for coming on the programme. first of all, what is your reaction to what we have been hearing? it’s is your reaction to what we have been hearing? it's not really surprising, _ have been hearing? it's not really surprising, there - have been hearing? it's not| really surprising, there have been rumblings on the ground for a couple of years now. king abdullah has been a king who has undertaken quite a bit of economic reforms but not political reforms, especially since the arab spring. the former crown prince, because the king removed the title four years into his reign, to be meeting with tribal elders and talking to their discontent with this king comes at a time whenjordan has been hurting economically, the king has been touting the fact thatjordan�*s foreign debt has reached 95% of the country's gdp. this increase is really due to several challenges in the region today, a decrease in tourism, increased spending on the military, the pandemic, and of course the decade—lo

so we can now welcome onto the program fahmi kiddish she is a hedge fund manager and short seller who appeared before the pundits dogs why caught investigation committee herself thank you very much for joining us on day w. business you had your suspicions about why a card long before the scandal broke why well we began researching why are card back in 2017 ahead of the launch of my fine sack of capital and the issue with wire cart is that over the entirety of its existence it's faced very credible allegations from a variety of stakeholders beginning with its own shareholders various news outlets whether in germany's or domestic media but also foreign media and then we also have various short selling reports so there was a consistency to these allegations there was history there and most times when this happens it's not as though these allegations are being made for fun that there's genuinely some reason that that's driving these sorts of suspicions so very early on anyone could put those pieces together and use that as a reason to investigate further from what you're saying it sounds

joe fahmy.>> that does it for us here on "worldwide exchange. tomorrow's good friday markets are closed i'm off the next week. i'll see you back on april 12th. thank you very much for joining us have a good holiday and good friday and good easter "squawk box" is next i'll see you in two mondays. take care. so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business. >>> good morning major indices posted positives in the first quarter. >>> president biden making his pitch to pay for a $2 trillion infrastructure plan by raising taxes on corporations and a lot of other things. details and reactions straight ahead. >>> johnson &