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Macroeconomic Review 2025: Highlights from the BDL Report with a Focus on the Balance of Payments

Banque Du Liban (BDL) recently released its Macroeconomic Review for the first half of 2025, offering a comprehensive assessment of Lebanon’s economic trajectory, monetary conditions, Balance of Payments ... read more

A Brief on the New Bank Restructuring Law

Introduction The banking sector has suffered since late 2019 without serious measures taken from previous governments to start solving the banking crisis. Several plans were prepared by previous ... read more

Rhyming with the Past: What Lebanon’s Inflation Says About Its Future

In its Spring 2025 issue titled “Turning the Tide?”, the World Bank’s (WB) Lebanon Economic Monitor (LEM) featured a special analysis on Lebanon’s inflation. Since Lebanon’s financial crisis began, ... read more

Lebanon’s Financial Collapse: A Systemic Crisis Ignored!

Lebanon’s economic collapse extends well beyond the banking sector—it is a systemic crisis. This is the central argument of the 2025 report “It’s a Systemic Crisis!” published by The Leaders Club at ... read more

LEA’s ‘Preservation of Deposits’Position Paper: Analysis & Critique

In this spotlight, we will highlight the main issues discussed in the position paper “Advocating the Preservation of Deposits as Precondition for Economic Recovery with Integrity” prepared by the Lebanese ... read more

Is the Dollar’s Global Dominance Coming to an End?

Speculation has grown that President Donald Trump favors a weaker U.S. dollar, a stance that could prompt other countries—especially in Asia—to let their currencies appreciate in exchange for more ... read more

From Lollars to Dollars: How Will Beirut Stock Exchange Stocks Be Priced Next?

For several years, Lebanon has faced a severe and multifaceted economic crisis, marked by the dramatic devaluation of the Lebanese pound (LBP) and the imposition of informal capital controls. Since 2019, ... read more

Reflecting on 2024: The Lebanese Banking Sector Recap

The Lebanese banking sector remained in a critical situation in 2024 in the absence of any resolutions to the crisis. Since 2019, the economic and financial sector crises were not tackled seriously. ... read more

Lebanon’s Gold Reserves: To Lock or to Unlock?

Following the recent appointment of Karim Souaid as the governor of Lebanon’s Central Bank, Banque Du Liban (BDL), on March 27, 2025, a central debate has emerged regarding the potential use of the ... read more

Reflecting on 2024: The Global and Lebanese Economy Recap

2024 was the year of global elections in which around 3.7 billion people (almost half of World population) had the opportunity to go to polls in 72 countries. Some countries had presidential elections; ... read more

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