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على المكشوف… من غير مُسكّنأسعار الذهب ٢٠٢٦: اللي بيطبع الدولار… بيشتري الذهب
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Bassem Kadry · 8d ago · 2 minLatest Articles
على المكشوف… من غير مُسكّنأسعار الذهب ٢٠٢٦: اللي بيطبع الدولار… بيشتري الذهب
الذهب كسر ٤٤٠٠ دولار، الأمريكان بيبيعوا والبنوك المركزية بتشتري بأكبر كمية في التاريخ. حد فيهم غلطان… مين اللي شايف حاجة الباقي مش شايفها؟
على المكشوف… من غير مُسكّنTax Sukuk… A Brilliant Idea, But Let's Hope We Aren't Spending Tomorrow's Taxes Today
Egypt is studying a new financing instrument called Tax Sukuk: taxpayers pay tomorrow's taxes today in exchange for a yield. The article explains why the idea is genuinely clever, and why its very cleverness is the source of concern: because we are not creating new revenue, we are pulling future money to spend today. If the proceeds go toward productive projects that expand the tax base, this is r
Why the Energy Grid — Not Generation — Is the Real Bottleneck
Building solar and wind is the easy part. Moving that power is where the transition stalls.
Why Equity Markets Keep Shrugging Off Bad News
Investors have grown accustomed to treating weak economic data as good news for markets — a pattern that works until, suddenly, it doesn't.
The Cybersecurity Talent Gap Is Becoming a Board-Level Risk
As attacks grow more sophisticated, a persistent shortage of skilled defenders is forcing companies to rethink security as a strategic, not just technical, problem.
Stablecoins Are Quietly Becoming Financial Infrastructure, Not Just Trading Chips
Once used mainly to move between crypto trades, stablecoins are increasingly settling real cross-border payments — raising questions regulators are only beginning to answer.
Regional Trade Corridors Are Redrawing the Map of Economic Influence
A wave of new logistics and transport corridors is quietly reshaping which economies gain leverage in a fragmenting global trade order.
The Grid Is Becoming the Real Bottleneck for the Energy Transition
Solar and wind capacity keeps getting cheaper to build — but connecting it to an aging grid has become the slowest, most expensive part of the transition.
Why Central Banks Are Struggling to Read Their Own Models
The economic forecasting models guiding interest-rate decisions were built for a world of stable supply chains — a world that increasingly no longer exists.
The Quiet Consolidation of the AI Cloud Market
Behind the headline-grabbing model releases, a handful of cloud providers are quietly cornering the infrastructure layer every AI company depends on — and the terms of that dependency are tightening.
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The Quiet Race to Build the Gulf's AI Data Center Capacity
While global attention stays fixed on chip export rules, three Gulf states have quietly committed over $40 billion combined to data center capacity built specifically for AI workloads.