Time and again during this most recent war in Lebanon, we hear the phrase, “The battlefield has the final word”. It has become the sole and wholly…

At the time of writing, the death toll in Lebanon from the Israeli bombing was just shy of 3,000, with more than 13,000 wounded. More than 1,130…

Across the Middle East, there are six active conflict zones and other areas where tensions and grievances could ignite at any time. In such a…

Finally, the US Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell, have reached the moment that the business and financial worlds have been waiting for…

These are not easy days for Jerome Powell, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve (aka the Fed). In the testy, anxious run-up to a vital presidential…

The promise of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is so revolutionary, and the dangers of its misuse so catastrophic, that the environmental…

Two key moments shaped this year’s summit of central bankers at the US resort of Jackson Hole, which is home to one of the biggest annual events on…

Every year, a three-day symposium is held in a beautiful mountainous area of the United States, just south of Yellowstone National Park. Jackson Hole…

Every summer, central bankers from around the world converge on a beautiful lakeside retreat in Wyoming called Jackson’s Hole. It has great fly…

Few Lebanese will forget the day of 4 August 2020, when an enormous store of ammonium nitrate caused a huge explosion in the Port of Beirut.It killed…