Gregg Carlstrom

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496 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Hard cedar: Lebanon seeks Trump’s help · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

And the cost of that war has been enormous. matched

You have the human toll, more than four thousand people killed, including plenty of civilians, medics, journalists, ordinary people in the South. matched

But for Hezbollah itself, quite a striking. matched

Death toll. matched

I drove through one Shia village in the Becca Valley in eastern Lebanon. matched

A small place, maybe 1,500 people live there, counted at least a dozen posters announcing the deaths of Hezbollah fighters. matched

And that's an undercount. matched

Some of the bodies haven't been identified. matched

Some families have been told not to mourn in public. matched

So we're probably talking 1 to 2% of the population of this very small village. matched

And then along with the human cost, matched

You have the economic cost of the war. matched

I met with Amran Basat, the economy minister who estimated the total damage is around 40% of Lebanon's GDP. matched

Also thinks the country is going to be pushed into a recession this year because of a slowdown caused by the war. matched

And this is where it links to Lebanon's second big problem, the economy, the aftermath of this unresolved economic crisis. matched

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There when it began back in 2019 and 20. matched

And it was a dizzying time that currency was dropping to new lows every week. matched

The banks were effectively closed. matched

Nobody could get money out of a bank. matched

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