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Ziad Daoud

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Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Bloomberg. Senior Fellow at Harvard @MiddleEast_HKS. PhD @LSEEcon. Views are mine. الأحد بالعربي

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"Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel, and his wife noted the great diversity of guests. “There is no limit to your curiosity,” they wrote in their message [to Epstein], which was compiled with others in January 2016" nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/…

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"Boston Consulting Group consultants modelled relocating Palestinians to Somalia and Somaliland during a project on postwar Gaza .. Multiple potential destinations were listed in a complex spreadsheet created on behalf of Israeli businessmen" ft.com/content/2206da…

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Trump has doubled tariffs on India to 50% Surprising? Maybe But Robert Lighthizer - Trump’s former trade chief - listed so many complaints about India's trade policy in his book.. .. I couldn't even fit them in one screenshot bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Trump has doubled tariffs on India to 50%

Surprising? Maybe

But Robert Lighthizer - Trump’s former trade chief - listed so many complaints about India's trade policy in his book..

.. I couldn't even fit them in one screenshot

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If Trump tariffs are bad for the economy, why is the stock market rallying? Paul Krugman offers some explanations: • Stocks aren’t good predictors of the economy • Tariff damage is smaller than people think • The AI boom is masking the impact paulkrugman.substack.com/p/about-that-s…

If Trump tariffs are bad for the economy, why is the stock market rallying?

Paul Krugman offers some explanations:
• Stocks aren’t good predictors of the economy
• Tariff damage is smaller than people think
• The AI boom is masking the impact

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/about-that-s…
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Lebanon $80 billion question: Banks lent the central bank The central bank lent the government The government defaulted Who takes the hit? 4 groups will share the pain: • Bank shareholders • Depositors • Foreign creditors • The Lebanese state bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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5 things that happened this week: Egypt will boost gas purchases from Israel From 2026 to 2040 - $35 billion worth of gas, largest in Israel’s history - Cheaper than liquefied natural gas for Egypt - Risky: flows interrupted during Iran-Israel war 1/5 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Israel is escalating again: plans to take over Gaza City, potentially displacing 1 million Palestinians Global backlash is growing - Netherlands halted naval ship component exports - Even Germany will freeze military supplies usable in Gaza 2/5 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Lebanon government – under pressure from the US and the Gulf – wants to disarm Hezbollah It asked the army to come up with a plan by end-August Hezbollah called the move a “surrender strategy” in the face of “ongoing Israeli occupation” 3/5 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Trump announced he'll meet Putin, in Alaska, on 15 August His ceasefire deadline passed on Friday – no new sanctions Oil slid from $70 to $67 over the week 4/5 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Signs of Saudi overspending: Aramco is borrowing to pay dividends Signs of belt-tightening: government spending in April-June was lower than a year earlier 5/5 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Signs of Saudi overspending: Aramco is borrowing to pay dividends

Signs of belt-tightening: government spending in April-June was lower than a year earlier

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