Bitcoin
Who’s buying Bitcoin? The US, China, UK, Ukraine, North Korea, Bhutan, El Salvador, Venezuela and Finland collectively hold 527,883 Bitcoin, valued at approximately $52.8 billion. Forty-three Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)…
Fortifying goodwill, protecting gains
Abigail Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams (a founding father and the sixth president of the USA) wrote to him at the height of the revolution, “It is not in the…
Beyond the headlines: explaining Trump’s Gulf ‘trillions’
US President Donald Trump was wrapping up his Gulf tour on Friday having secured what the White House says is over $2 trillion for the US economy in combined deals.…
AI and the UAE
WHEN US President Donald Trump descended on the Middle East last week, he brought with him the CEOs of a host of American tech companies. These included Elon Musk, OpenAI’s…
Deadly distractions
AMONG the innumerable miracles Donald Trump claims to have performed in the past four months, has he also sidelined the Netanyahu regime? That was one of the more lurid fantasies…
Peace with dignity
AS escalation appeared on the cards with tit-for-tat missile and air attacks continuing between India and Pakistan, US President Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social media platform that a US-mediated “full…
Pope for peace
Last Sunday, I watched the special transmission of the Easter ceremony held in the Holy Vatican on the TV screen, where a huge crowd of people was eager to glimpse…
Bitcoin adoption
Bitcoin adoption is accelerating at a very rapid pace. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has invested $436 million in Bitcoin ETFs, and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board holds…
India’s Afghan gambit
On January 8, 2025, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of Afghanistan, in Dubai. This meeting marked the highest-level engagement between the…
Contours of the new Middle East
HOW and why the Assad regime collapsed like a house of cards in a mere 11 days, after battling foreign-sponsored rebel groups, including IS and Al Qaeda, for some 13…
