Imagine you’re at a family dinner, and your uncle starts ranting about why gas prices are skyrocketing again. Everyone nods along, but no one really knows the full story—supply chain snarls from halfway around the world, a tweet from a billionaire that tanked a stock, or some regulatory tweak buried in a 500-page bill. That’s … Read more
I still remember that humid June evening in 2025, sitting on my porch in Lahore with a cup of chai gone cold, scrolling through my phone as the news alert hit. “US Bombs Iran Nuclear Sites,” it screamed. My heart sank—not just because of the escalation, but because I’d seen this movie before. Back in … Read more
Picture this: It’s 2008, and I’m knee-deep in my thesis on global supply chains. I’d spent weeks buried in dusty academic journals, chasing theories that felt as relevant as a flip phone in a TikTok world. Then, one rainy afternoon in a Lahore café—yes, the kind with chai that could wake the dead—I picked up … Read more
Remember the spring of 2020? I was hunkered down in my tiny New York apartment, staring at a stock ticker that looked like it had been drop-kicked by a mule. My freelance gig in market analysis had dried up overnight, and I was left wondering if the world would ever hit “play” again. Fast forward … Read more
Imagine this: It’s a crisp morning in Lahore, the kind where the call to prayer mixes with the hum of rickshaws outside your window. You’re sipping chai, scrolling through your phone, when a headline flashes—something about escalating tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just kicked off military drills that could ripple … Read more
I still remember the summer of 2025 in Lahore—the air thick with monsoon humidity, street vendors hawking overpriced cold drinks, and that nagging sense of uncertainty hanging over every chai stall conversation. “Beta, when will things get better?” an uncle would ask, stirring his glass with a weary sigh. Back then, Pakistan’s economy felt like … Read more
Imagine this: It’s a crisp Monday morning in early 2022, and I’m nursing my coffee, scrolling through headlines on my phone. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics drops a bombshell—over 400,000 jobs added in January alone, unemployment dipping to 4%. Sounds like champagne-worthy stuff, right? The economy’s roaring back from the pandemic haze. But then … Read more
Hey there, fellow news junkie. Picture this: It’s 2018, and I’m backpacking through Southeast Asia, nursing a lukewarm coffee in a Hanoi café. The Wi-Fi’s spotty, my phone’s battery is dying, and the only English paper I can grab is a crumpled copy of the International New York Times. That front-page story on U.S.-China trade … Read more
I remember the crisp January morning in 2026 when I sipped my coffee, scrolling through headlines that felt like they’d been ripped from a dystopian novel. It was only the second day of the year, but already the world was tilting on its axis. Donald Trump, back in the White House after his improbable 2024 … Read more
Picture this: It’s a crisp Monday morning in Lahore—wait, no, let’s make it universal. You’re sipping your coffee, scrolling through your phone, and bam, the markets are doing that thing again. One minute, tech stocks are the darlings of the decade; the next, they’re tripping over their own AI hype. I’ve been there, back in … Read more