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Lebanon Financial Crisis: Banks Torched After Pound Taps New Low Versus the US Dollar

Lebanon Financial Crisis: Banks Torched After Pound Taps New Low Versus the US DollarThe Lebanese pound’s fall to its lowest ever versus the U.S. dollar, 80,000 to 1, has piled more misery on residents whose local currency-denominated savings have been decimated by inflation. The ongoing strike by banks demanding the passage of capital control legislation has compounded matters for residents. Lebanese Pound Devaluation According to several local media […]

Mark Cuban Says FTX and Three Arrows Capital Would Still Be Operating if Gary Gensler Had Done the Right Thing

Lebanon Ponzi Finance: World Bank Says Politicians Are to Blame for the ‘Deliberate Depression’

Lebanon Ponzi Finance: World Bank Says Politicians Are to Blame for the ‘Deliberate Depression’Deliberately insufficient policy responses by successive Lebanese governments combined with the self-serving agreements by politicians are largely to blame for the country’s economic crisis, a report by the World Bank has said. The report concludes that the country needs to seriously engage “in the macro-fiscal, financial, and sector reforms the World Bank has been stressing […]

Mark Cuban Says FTX and Three Arrows Capital Would Still Be Operating if Gary Gensler Had Done the Right Thing

Lebanon Inflation Rate Surges to 211%, Economist Steve Hanke Recommends a Currency Board

Lebanon Inflation Rate Surges to 211%, Economist Steve Hanke Recommends a Currency BoardAs political leaders in crisis-hit Lebanon bicker over positions in the yet-to-be-formed government, the country’s runaway inflation rate surged to 211% in May 2022, new data has shown. Economist Steve Hanke insists that a currency board is a solution to Lebanon’s currency woes. Black Market in Fuel Driving Inflation The inflation rate in crisis-torn Lebanon […]

Mark Cuban Says FTX and Three Arrows Capital Would Still Be Operating if Gary Gensler Had Done the Right Thing