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Dr Farrukh Saleem

Dr Farrukh Saleem

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New ‘arms race’

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Expensive blunder

27.01.2025 90

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Too hot to handle

19.01.2025 30

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G-zero world

12.01.2025 60

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Tokenisation

As our national debate remains fixated on containers, dharnas, civil-disobedience and other zero-sum political theatrics, the world around us is...

30.12.2024 7

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Reinvent the dollar

Imagine: the US national debt has skyrocketed past a staggering $36 trillion – a burden that translates to $275,000 for every American taxpayer....

22.12.2024 8

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Trump II

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, X.com, and SpaceX, will co-chair the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alongside entrepreneur Vivek...

15.12.2024 10

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Bitcoin IV

Inviting Bitcoin to Pakistan amounts to inviting cutting-edge, world-changing technology to Pakistan. Inviting Bitcoin to Pakistan amounts to...

09.12.2024 10

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Continuity

No zero-sum political theatrics, please. No idle shipping containers blocking roads, disrupting lives, and choking the economy, please. Absolutely...

01.12.2024 4

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Crypto tech boom

24.11.2024 20

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Bitcoin reserve

17.11.2024 10

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Dollar bullets

Trump is halting bloody bullet wars, only to ignite bloody trade wars. Meanwhile, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the financial...

10.11.2024 5

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Weaponising gold

03.11.2024 3

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Bitcoin III

The total supply of Bitcoin is capped at 21 million coins. Bitcoin is an ‘open source censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer immutable network’....

27.10.2024 2

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Bitcoin II

El Salvador made history on September 7, 2001, by becoming the world’s first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. This groundbreaking move has...

21.10.2024 5

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Bitcoin

In the US, the Federal Reserve has shifted towards a more accommodative monetary policy, signaling a ‘pivot’ from its previous stance. Meanwhile,...

13.10.2024 5

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Hopeful horizons

In September 2024, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) dropped to 6.9 per cent, a significant decline from 31.4 per cent in September 2023. This means...

06.10.2024 10

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Ethereum

There are approximately 19.5 million Bitcoins in circulation, resulting in a total market capitalization of roughly $1.2 trillion. Next to Bitcoin...

29.09.2024 3

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Capital suggestion: Lost in time

Pakistan finds itself embroiled in a national debate centred on the Supreme Court's composition, while the world outside of Pakistan is focused on...

22.09.2024 3

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Capital suggestion: Force multipliers

Gotham is the new force multiplier. Gotham is the battlefield management system that integrates and analyzes vast amounts of data from multiple...

15.09.2024 20

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Capital suggestion: Future of finance

The estimated total market capitalization of all the stock exchanges in the world is approximately $110 trillion. The largest exchanges, such as...

08.09.2024 3

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Capital suggestion: Authority structure

01.09.2024 2

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Capital suggestion: Beware the apps

25.08.2024 5

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The glue of Pakistan

Pakistan is facing a multi-pronged assault from destabilizing forces. Centrifugal pressures are relentlessly working to divide the nation, much...

18.08.2024 3

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Capital suggestion: China or US?

The geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China is intensifying. For Pakistan, this intensification is reducing the scope for...

11.08.2024 2

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Capital suggestion: Power facts

Fact 1: One power company supplies electricity to the government at a rate of Rs745 per unit, making it one of the highest-priced electricity...

04.08.2024 4

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