I really hope we don't have of the Ali Tleiss story this year but there's a Lebanese student who claims to have scored the highest IQ in the World of 285/300, ahead of a Russian & Japanese student. The kid is claiming to have won a Global IQ competition organized by IQ International but I haven't found such a thing online. IQ Global test is just a test where you go and test out your…

Riad Salameh is gone and so is his shady exchange platform "Sayrafa". Instead, the Council of Ministers has agreed to adopt a new Bloomberg-operated platform for dollar trading, which is expected to reflect the actual and free exchange rate, limit the cash economy and replace the numerous parallel market exchange rates. This is in theory of course, but the truth is that while this platform may provide more transparency, the absence of reforms and the…