According to IRNA, one of the most important crises left behind by the previous government was high and growing inflation. Experts have cited various reasons for the growth of inflation in recent years, including the growth of high liquidity. The statistics of the central bank show that the record of the highest liquidity growth after the revolution was broken in 2019. Accordingly, in 2019, the annual growth of liquidity reached an unprecedented figure of 40.6% by crossing the 40% mark.
The continuous growth of the liquidity growth index in the last three years of the last government created a strong stimulus for the peak of inflation in the last months of the last government and the beginning months of the 13th government. Inflation that is now affecting the people and has made it difficult for the majority of people to meet their living expenses.
The weak management of the central bank in the Rouhani government, especially during the Hemmati period, laid the groundwork for the unbridled growth of liquidity in the country and caused the heavy pressure of inflation on the people. However, the 13th government, immediately after taking office, took action to establish discipline in the country's monetary system. One of the serious steps taken by the Central Bank of the Thirteenth Government in order to regulate the functioning of the banking network in creating liquidity is to impose restrictions on the growth of banks' balance sheets. In this regard, the central bank limited the balance sheet growth of banks with poor capital adequacy to 1.5% and banks with favorable capital adequacy to 2.5%.
Statistics show that the growth of banks' facility balances, as the main engine of liquidity growth, has significantly decreased after the implementation of this policy compared to the same period last year.
Thus, the growth of liquidity in the 13th government decreased and reached 39% at the end of 1400 and 37.8% in June of this year. Due to the delay in the effect of monetary components on inflation, it is expected that the continuation of the trend of reducing the growth rate of liquidity will lead to a faster decrease in inflation in the coming months.
David Popovici broke the men's 100m freestyle world record to win gold at the European Championships in Rome.
The 17-year-old Romanian double world champion swam 46.86sec on Saturday to slice 0.05sec off the old mark set by Brazilian Cesar Cielo in the same pool at the 2009 World Championships in the era of buoyant body suits.
The fastest time in a textile suit had been 46.96 set by American Olympic champion Caeleb Dressel at the 2019 World Championships.
Hungary's Kristof Milak was second on Saturday with Italy's Alessandro Miressi third.
Popovici had eased into the final on Friday with a new European record of 46.98 seconds.
Only two other swimmers managed to dip under 48sec on Friday, Milak and Miressi in the other semi-final, but both were some way off Popovici.
In June, Popovici became the first man to complete the 100-200m freestyle double at the World Championships in nearly 50 years.
In a golden summmer, he also won three European junior titles in his home town of Bucharest.
The fastest 100 freestyle in history by the 17-year-old phenom David Popovici. 46.86. Absolutely insane.pic.twitter.com/NDYQiPXalC
— Kyle Sockwell (@kylesockwell) August 13, 2022
Another 17-year-old world champion also added European gold on Saturday.
Italian Benedetta Pilato won the women's 100m breaststroke in 1:05.97, more than a second-and-half outside the world record set by American Lilly King in 2017.
Pilato was followed home by compatriot Lisa Angiolini and Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte, the 50m world champion.
Pilato imitated her compatriot Federico Poggio, who won the men's 200m breaststroke on Friday.
Italy with the 1️⃣, 2️⃣ finish!
Benedetta Pilato led the Women's 100m Breaststroke heats to qualify with a time of 1:05.77 🇮🇹
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Swedish veteran Sarah Sjostrom won the women's 50m butterfly gold for the fifth time in 24.96. The 28-year-old is the only woman to go under 25 seconds in the events in a 50m pool.
France's Marie Wattel won silver in 25.33 with Maaike de Waard of the Netherlands a distant third in 25.62.
Frenchman Yohann Ndoye Brouard won the opening final of the evening when he took the men's 200m backstroke in 1 min 55.62 sec.
Ndoye Brouard had to swim his semi-final twice on Friday because of a problem with his starting block and ended up qualifying on time in an empty pool.
He beat Hungary's Benedek Kovacs in 1:56.03 and England's Luke Greenbank (1:56.15).
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It's been weeks since the teaser of his highly anticipated tell-all interview was released. On Thursday, Showmax subscribers finally got to hear Mohale Motaung's side of the story on Mohale On The Record.
In the exclusive interview, Motaung sits down with broadcaster Aldrin Sampear and sheds light on what happened between him and his estranged husband, Somizi Mhlongo, a year since divorce proceedings were initiated.
1. Setting the record straight
When Mhlongo and Motaung met in 2017, Motaung told Sampear that he was not a fan but "liked how he advocated for being himself." Motaung's account dispels what Mhlongo's daughter, Bahumi, said about the couple's relationship being like that of a fan and celebrity during a conversation with her mother, Palesa Madisakwane, in an episode of the fifth season of Living The Dream With Somizi.
While Motaung said he did not watch the show, he was "particularly shocked" when he learned that his name came up quite often in multiple conversations throughout the season.
"There was a legal document binding both of us from speaking about each other on platforms like these," he said. He added that while he could not speak for Bahumi and Palesa's views on his relationship, "that is probably how they see it with other people because they spend a lot of time with Somizi [and] around people who are his fans, I was definitely not a fan."
Motaung also opened up about cheating early on in his relationship with Mhlongo. He initially admitted to cheating in an audio recording leaked in 2021.
"We were three months into the relationship. It's not really something to be proud of because it was hurtful for me to see him being that hurt, and I can't even sit here and say there was a reason for it happening. It was just me being selfish and not thinking about him – that was just not on."
2. More than one proposal
In 2018, the lovebirds jetted off to Paris, where they would return as a couple gearing up to walk down the aisle after Mhlongo popped the big question at the Eiffel Tower. However, things got slightly sticky when Mhlongo finally met his long-time crush, Orlando.
According to Motaung, Mhlongo introduced Orlando as his friend – just before popping the big question. Motaung added that a day after they got engaged, Mhlongo asked him what he thought about threesomes.
Motaung told Sampear that when he asked Mhlongo why, Mhlongo told him he wanted them to have a threesome with Orlando. "It wasn't a red flag because he said to me that there was nothing happening."
3. The red flags
"He really wanted me to be a househusband, that was his biggest dream, and when I didn't allow myself to be in that position, or for that to take place, a lot of things started not being okay in that relationship," he said in the interview.
Motaung said that Mhlongo encouraged him to resign from his 9 to 5 job leading up to their trip to Paris because his then manager told him he could not take leave.
"Without my knowing, Somizi sent an email to my boss asking her to release me to go to Paris because flights and accommodation have been booked.
"I was shocked, and I had that conversation with him, and upon us having that conversation, he then said to me that I need to resign. He kept telling me, 'You need to resign because this Paris trip has to happen. You can't be working a 9 to 5 job. You need to resign because there are other business interests that you can take part in.'"
Motaung also said that Mhlongo asked his former friend TT Mbha to speak to "certain people".
"A big reason why Somizi and TT Mbha are not talking is because Somizi asked TT to go speak to certain people and tell them not to hire me."
According to Motaung, it was "hurtful" that his husband and his best friend conspired against him. When Sampear asked if Motaung was referring to the job from the Fergusons, he agreed.
"He (Somizi) told me that he went and told TT Mbha to speak to the Fergusons at the time because he was close to them. When I confronted TT about this, he then had to come clean and tell me who exactly told him to do that," Motaung said to Sampear. "Somizi is angry that TT was not loyal enough to come up with a story."
4. The alleged physical abuse
In one of the alleged physical abuse incidents, Motaung said it happened when he returned from Durban. "That part of my life was a very dark time," he said.
"He was angry at the fact that I went to work in Durban," Motaung said. When he returned home, things took a turn for the worst when Mhlongo allegedly followed him upstairs and threw champagne at him.
"I remember him saying that he needs to mess up my face because this beautiful face is messing things up for him. I remember having to cover my face because the shoes that he was wearing were really going to damage my face. He started hitting me in the ribs, started hitting my legs, and I couldn't walk; I crawled down the stairs."
5. Settling their estate
According to Motaung's court papers, shown in the interview, he has never wanted half of Mhlongo's assets. Instead, Motaung said he was "shocked, yet again" when he heard Mhlongo claimed he wanted 50% of his assets.
"The very first letter that we sent to Somizi on 25 June 2021 stated that I wanted my clothing, the car he bashed (valued at a minimum value of R200 000), and I want the money for the wedding (R750 000) which belongs to the both of us."
Motaung said he was entitled to the R750 000 because it was money from their wedding special.
"I was shocked when he said I wanted 50%. Instead, in his response to the letter that we sent out to him, that he sent back to us on 25 July, he's the one who suggested that we go for the division of the joint estate, and to my surprise, he then goes on his show and says I asked him for 50% of his assets."
News24 has reached out to Somizi for comments made in the Showmax special. He did not respond to any attempts to contact him. News24 also reached out to his media team, who, at the time of publishing, had not yet responded. Should News24 receive a response, it will be added to this article.
In a previous interview with News24 about his return to Idols SA amid the allegations against him, Somizi said: "If you have noticed, I've never spoken about anything, and I believe my private life is my private life, and my work life is my work life, so I'm still staying there. I feel like I can't say anything at the moment, and I don't want to say anything at the moment with regard to that. All I can tell you is it was one of the toughest times of my life and my career, but we move forward and like we say: 'Innocent until proven guilty.'"
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Laura Ingraham sounded off on the left-wing media trying to create the narrative that former President Donald Trump has waning political influence despite the success of his endorsed candidates on "The Ingraham Angle."
LAURA INGRAHAM: That's what's called wishful thinking, folks, because they desperately wanted Trump gone, they let that clout — whatever sliver of political judgment they ever had, if they had any to begin with. Now, check out this map of states where Trump-endorsed candidates have won so far in Senate races.
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Now, for those of you keeping score at home, that's 8–0, a record in the Senate primaries. And in the House primaries, his record is 14 wins and five losses. So that's an overall success rate for all races Senate, House and governors of 95% for incumbents and 79% for non-incumbents. That winning percentage should become even more big with the now-expected victory of Kari Lake in Arizona after tonight's new batch of counted votes. Now, whatever you think of Trump's policies, his personality, does all of that look like the record of someone with waning political influence? The establishment view again is wrong on so many issues, and it was that Trump was bad for the GOP.
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They said that over and over — like, he turned people off. "I would never vote for him, minorities would run from him." Well, that's not panning out either. In fact, when it comes to minorities, the opposite's the case. Hispanics are more favorably inclined toward Republicans than ever before.
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Nigeria's Tobi Amusan has broken the women's 100 metres hurdles world record in a stunning semi-final effort at the World Championships.
The record time of 12.12 seconds broke on Sunday Kendra Harrison's mark of 12.20, as the American finished second in the heat.
While most athletes aim to conserve their energy in the semi-final, the 25-year-old Amusan held nothing back at Hayward field, a day after she set the African record in the opening heats.
"It is a strong feeling. I wanted to get out and go," she told reporters. "I did what I had to do. Looking forward to the finals."
She shocked the crowd at Eugene in US state of Oregon, putting on the kind of superb performance usually reserved for prime time in the opening race of the Sunday evening schedule.
Other qualifiers
Jamaican Britany Anderson won her semi-final in a national record 12.31 seconds, with Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn also advancing (12.32).
American Alia Armstrong and Devynne Charlton of the Bahamas also advanced to the final later on Sunday.
"That was a crazy race," said Britain's Cindy Sember, who advanced on time.
"I have been in shape and I knew it was coming when it matters the most."
Source: Reuters
