Story of the Week
40% increase in salaries and still not enough
We are back! I know, when we sent the last issue of Iran Economy in Brief in 2020, we promised to be back in January 2021. However, life got very tough (all of a sudden) […]
Articles by Dr. Mahya Karbalaii
Bonus Briefings
We are 5 years old!
Despite all these news pieces, some good, some bad and some strange, we would like to share our joy with you that our newsletter, Iran Economy in Brief, has become five years old! We started […]
Bonus Briefings
09.09.99 a very luxury birthdate
While some of us were showing off to others, that we had tomato in our salad yesterday, some other families had other serious problems. That was the date they wanted their baby to be born. […]
Agriculture
Tomatoes: the most political vegetables
The good news is that tomato prices which had started to sky rocket, finally have conceded. We have strongly concluded that tomatoes are very political and also that they belong to GOP, not only because […]
Banking
30% of Iranian Top Exporters Are Homeless, claims the Central Bank
Since the formation of the Silk Road, Persians established themselves as very talented merchants. If ancient Chinese and Indians struggled to sell their products, they were advised to give it to a Persian trader. “They […]
Week in Brief
IMF economic forecasts for 2021 sound surreal!
Over the past years, if not decades, we have got used not to take seriously the government’s economic forecasts. However, it seems that we should get used to take even international institutions’ forecasts not seriously […]
Bonus Briefings
After electricity, the govt considers making water gratis!
After defining the plan to make electricity gratis, now the government is considering to design another plan for water. But, there seems to be a big difference between these two. If you remember, we didn’t […]
Agriculture
How journalists’ exaggeration changes facts!
Have you also heard that journalists are used to exaggerate news to sell them better? This is what many people say about them (us).Indeed, we would like to present a fact which confirms this claim.Ten […]
Food
Butterflies from Iranian tables like other products
We just watch as butterflies from Iranian tables toward the sky, like many other products: cheese, eggs, meat, rice, etc.* The method is now a classic: first there are rumors that the price of a […]
Industries
Why Tehran subway can be universally unique?
IEB: which city in the world has the cheapest subway system? A clever reader: Tehran! otherwise why should you have started an Iranian economic newsletter with this question?! IEB: Wrong! The correct answer is “Pyongyang”. […]