Q&A with economist Freddie Baz on Lebanon’s economic survival

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In discussing Lebanon’s economic survival, some local opinion makers and economists have been making nothing but dire predictions since the fourth quarter of 2019. Executive wanted to take the perspective of Freddie Baz, a Lebanese economist, banker, and citizen who has for over two decades been a regular interlocutor of this magazine on banking and economics. The interview has been substantially edited for brevity.   Although you are not thrown around by the Lebanese storm as some of the people, one could regard you as an observer in the eye of this storm. Knowing that you are someone who has been an economist and strategist in banking for more than half of your life, and knowing that you are a direct witness to the destitution of the people living around you, how does it feel for this economist to sit in the eye of the story and see all this