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Could Beirut Become a Gateway Between India and Europe?
Lebanon's two main ports just joined the IMEC Ports Club. Here's what that could mean — and what it would take to get on the route.
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Trump Wants to Replace “AI” With “SI.” But Superintelligence Means Something Much Bigger.
Donald Trump wants the U.S. government to start calling artificial intelligence “Superintelligence,” or SI. But superintelligence already means something much bigger—and the announcement reveals how AI is becoming an economic, infrastructure and geopolitical race.
MoneyFeatured
Yields Are Back at 2008-Era Levels. Is the Market Ignoring the Warning?
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has climbed above 5.1%, returning to levels last seen in 2007. Stocks have remained remarkably resilient—but higher yields are changing the mathematics underneath markets.
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The People Building AI Are Now Arguing for Slowing It Down. And Their Rivals Agreed.
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for slowing the pace of frontier AI. Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly agreed. When the people competing to build the most powerful AI systems start questioning the speed of the race, it is worth paying attention.
MoneyFeatured
The Cost of War in Lebanon Isn’t Just the Damage. It’s the Growth That Never Happened
From 2023 to 2026, conflict has damaged businesses, tourism, investment and household purchasing power. But Lebanon’s biggest economic loss may be the opportunities that never had the chance to exist.
MoneyFeatured
What geopolitical risk does to a market — and what governance changes about it
Two identical companies in different countries trade at different multiples, and the gap is not about either company. How geopolitical risk reaches a share price, why institutions change the size of the damage, and what it means to model the two together.
MoneyFeatured
Why prices moved before your salary did
Inflation is usually explained as "prices going up". That framing hides the part that actually affects you: prices and incomes do not move at the same speed, and the gap between them is where the damage happens.
CareersFeatured
What a finance interview is actually testing
Most candidates prepare for finance interviews by memorising answers. Interviewers are rarely testing recall — they are testing whether your reasoning survives one follow-up question.
BusinessFeatured
Why a profitable month can still leave you short
Profit and cash answer different questions. A business can be genuinely profitable and genuinely unable to pay its suppliers in the same month — and the reason is usually timing, not trouble.
Why It Matters
How a shipping route becomes a grocery bill
A disruption thousands of kilometres away reaches your weekly shop through a chain of entirely ordinary business decisions. Following that chain is more useful than any headline about it.
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