Let me start but saying that lockdowns in most countries around the world have turned into failed experiments, but quite often helped these same countries in planning the re-opening phase or implementing a second lockdown, or at least address some of the gaps found in their health care system. Unfortunately for us in Lebanon, we're in our third lockdown, if we were to consider the second "partial" lockdown as one, and we're still committing the…

A friend shared a picture of a Special K cereals box he bought last week that had a label stating that it was subsidized by the Ministry of Economy. I also was listening to an interview on MTV or LBCI and someone mentioned coffee capsules, such as Nespresso, were also part of the Ministry's list. The list got revised this week to exclude certain products, including the cereals from what I heard, that aren't commodities…