Lebanon is a wealthy country. In principle. It has all sorts of assets – land, water, industry, skilled workers and competitive professionals, a deep education system, …
A weak position in the undeclared cyber war
We live in a time when hardly a day goes by without hearing about a cybersecurity incident. The need for a safe and secure digital world significantly grew after the…
No Legal Legs to Stand On: Mikati’s Plan for the Financial Crisis
Since the start of Lebanon’s financial woes at the end of 2019, the government has proposed several measures to address the liquidity crisis in banks. Yet all the suggested measures…
An infamous debt build up
Lebanon’s fiscal policy over the past decades has been in most years very expansionary. Fiscal deficits at the end of the civil war relied heavily on domestic currency financing. Foreign…
The legality and the perceptions of banking based in Lebanon
To the interest of anyone who is not a part of the political and banking power ensemble, an absurd theater of dance and song is being played out on the…
One path to survival with no forks in the road
Lebanon’s socio-political-economic cancer has metastasized through critical levels of political corruption and nepotism, with flagrant economic and social exploitations, from politicians, their institutions, and the elitists who surround them. The…
Business
To the interest of anyone who is not a part of the political and banking power ensemble, an absurd theater of dance and song is …
Opinion
The secret of a viable capitalist approach to macroeconomics may lie less in redistributive intervention or stimulus of consumption but in aligning the private greed …
