The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will take the plight of community banks into account when charging financial institutions a “special assessment fee” to cover recent losses incurred over the U.S. banking crisis, the FDIC’s head told lawmakers in a hearing on Wednesday. The special assessment fee, which is required by law, will help […]
Economic Crisis
The European Union has agreed to allow retaliation against countries that put undue economic pressure on EU members to change their policies, such as the trade restrictions the bloc says China has imposed on Lithuania. Representatives of the European Parliament and the Council, the grouping of EU countries, reached a provisional deal on the anti-coercion […]
Unveiling the Hype: ChatGPT’s Take on Lebanon’s Long-standing Political and Economic Crisis – Straight from an Inside Telecom Interview! ChatGPT is the new hype. That is not a secret. So, we decided to put that hype to the test. Inside Telecom decided to see what the big deal is. We asked this advanced Artificial Intelligence […]
Li Qiang, the former Communist Party chief of Shanghai, took office on Saturday as China’s premier, the country’s No.2 post, putting the close ally of President Xi Jinping in charge of reviving an economy battered by three years of COVID-19 curbs. Widely perceived to be pragmatic and business-friendly, the 63-year-old Li faces the daunting task […]
Smart cities, cognitive cities’ predecessors, as a concept, are not as brand new as you might think. In fact, in 1974, Los Angeles created the first urban big data project, “A Cluster Analysis of Los Angeles,” fast forward to 1994, and Amsterdam hopped on the wagon with a virtual digital city, “De Digital Stad” (DDS), […]
When a region’s economy contracts over several months or even years, a recession occurs. The region’s gross domestic product (GDP), or the sum of the value of the goods and services it produces, declines during these times. At the same time, sudden changes in the cost of commodities like gas or oil are possible. Industries […]
At a time when all of Lebanon’s public sector face a detrimental crisis, one state telecom service provider, Ogero, is facing turmoil from within its walls. An open-ended strike has been declared by employees in an attempt to pressure the establishment to give them what is rightfully theirs, better wages, as Lebanon and its people […]
In an attempt to warn about the current global economic situation, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei is urging big and small businesses to focus on surviving, as the worse is yet to come. Global tensions are rising, and China, as a powerhouse, is playing its cards to show its powerful stance. Yet, could this be at […]