After two and a half years, Lebanon has a president. We don’t care. For the thirteenth time in our history, our head of state was imposed from outside. We don’t care. Our lawmakers – serving a second term they illegally gave themselves – are jokers, casting ballots for Myriam Klink and Zorba the Greek. We don’t care. We do, however, care that this news will no doubt make our country’s economic pulse quicken. But we must take this as an opportunity to begin moving our economy out of an up-and-down cycle tied to local and geo-politics as closely as GCC economies are tethered to oil prices. Central bank circular 331 – which freed up some $600 million in investment capital to boost our knowledge economy – is a perfect tool to help break this cycle, but three years since it was approved, I fear it’s not being used to its
