he is a professor of economics at the university of notre dame in indiana in the us professor. it's good to see you. this friday evening here, less go back in time a little bit if we were doing. let's go back to february 23rd right before the war in ukraine began. we were already seeing inflation on both sides of the atlantic. for example, if there had not been a war at all, would we be sitting here to night talking about these on record high inflation rates that were c yes, i believe so. probably not quite as much today's an impact of the war on inflation . but even just having putin threatening a war, drove of energy prices and sort of as long as this situation would have festered on an energy prices and food prices would have gone up to a certain extent. the fact that we see these record high faces is basically an expression of the fact that the world europe, particulars a gotten poorer to through 2 effects. one through a pandemic that has still scott the economy. we still see china not being able to deliver. it's good to sort of keep its weight in the world economy and then

he is a professor of economics at the university of notre dame in indiana in the us professor . it's good to see you this friday evening here. let's go back in time a little bit. if we were doing, let's go back to february 23rd right before the war in ukraine began. we were already seeing inflation on both sides of the atlantic. for example, if there had not been a war at all, would we be sitting here tonight talking about these on record high inflation rates that were c yes, i believe so. probably not quite as much today's an impact of the war on inflation . but even just having putin threatening of war drove up energy prices and that of as long as this situation would have festered on an energy prices and food prices would have gone up to a certain extent. the fact that we see these record high prices is basically an expression of the fact that the world in europe, particularly as a gotten poorer to through to effects one through pandemic. that has still got the economy. we still see china not being able to deliver. it's good to sort of keep its weight in the world economy and

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