BDL added a footnote to its latest bi-monthly BDL balance sheet where roughly 16 billion dollars was added to the public debt owned by the Lebanese state to the Central Bank. The reasoning behind it? BDL Governor Salameh seemingly has just realized that he's been loaning the state since 2007 and decided to record what the state owns him as assets, all that "shockingly" few months before his term expires. In other words, he's reshuffling…

The main Al Arz ski lift was sabotaged last night few weeks before the opening of the ski season. The culprits climbed to the top of the hill at 2700m and cut or shot at the wires , leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. The sabotage will definitely affect the ski resort as urgent reparations are in order to open on time. It's still unclear who's behind this act and given that there…