https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:07:30 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/#respond Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:07:30 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136885

On December 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $35 billion deal to sell natural gas to Egypt in what officials describe as the largest energy export agreement in … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-epstein-opened-doors-to-netanyahu-and-ehud-barak-amid-israels-offshore-gas-fight/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/lebanese-cabinet-approves-a-draft-law-to-return-funds-wiped-out-with-the-2019-collapse-of-banks/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/lebanese-cabinet-approves-a-draft-law-to-return-funds-wiped-out-with-the-2019-collapse-of-banks/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:17:05 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136463

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft law to determine the extent of losses suffered by Lebanese banks during the country’s financial meltdown in 2019 and provide a mechanism to return … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/lebanese-cabinet-approves-a-draft-law-to-return-funds-wiped-out-with-the-2019-collapse-of-banks/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/analysis-seven-charts-showing-how-the-100bn-climate-finance-goal-was-met/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/analysis-seven-charts-showing-how-the-100bn-climate-finance-goal-was-met/#respond Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:36:32 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133806

A group of nations, including much of Europe, the US and Japan, is obliged under the Paris Agreement to provide international “climate finance” to developing countries. This financial support can come in … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/analysis-seven-charts-showing-how-the-100bn-climate-finance-goal-was-met/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserves-to-repression/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserves-to-repression/#respond Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:20:53 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=133074

Frances Coppola examines how a biblical tale of famine, taxation, and power reveals the roots of economic shock tactics and the perilous slide into repression. Forget economic textbooks. Religion is … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/from-reserves-to-repression/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/syrias-quest-to-build-its-own-silicon-valley/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/syrias-quest-to-build-its-own-silicon-valley/#respond Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:32:18 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=132602

At the end of November, Hamza Hourani’s phone rang. It was a cloudy morning in Damascus, and some Syrians were quietly stocking their cupboards as rebel fighters marched south toward … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/syrias-quest-to-build-its-own-silicon-valley/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/come-meet-us-in-dubai-the-new-offshoring-of-grand-corruption/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/come-meet-us-in-dubai-the-new-offshoring-of-grand-corruption/#respond Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:16:36 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=131037

During an interview one of us (Ricardo Soares de Oliveira) carried out in 2017, an African high net-worth individual said he was told by an executive whose business had long … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/come-meet-us-in-dubai-the-new-offshoring-of-grand-corruption/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/bread-line-not-the-cashline/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/bread-line-not-the-cashline/#respond Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:47:22 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=130820

Food for thought on Gaza’s runaway inflation from Frances Coppola. Inflation, we are told, is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”: too much money chasing too few goods. Allowing the … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/bread-line-not-the-cashline/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/unsafe-harbours/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/unsafe-harbours/#respond Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:28:17 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=130603

Laleh Khalili, a professor of Gulf Studies born in Iran to politically radical parents, uses her understanding of material structures such as ports, shipping, and mining, to build a picture … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/unsafe-harbours/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-hamas-sees-the-current-moment-an-exclusive-interview-with-osama-hamdan/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-hamas-sees-the-current-moment-an-exclusive-interview-with-osama-hamdan/#respond Sun, 11 May 2025 08:49:42 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=128728

  In an exclusive interview with Drop Site News, a senior Hamas official said that the movement will not capitulate to any demands from Israel or the U.S. to lay down its … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-hamas-sees-the-current-moment-an-exclusive-interview-with-osama-hamdan/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-many-ways-israeli-settlers-steal-palestinian-homes/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-many-ways-israeli-settlers-steal-palestinian-homes/#respond Sat, 29 Mar 2025 07:21:34 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=126337

On Monday, Ghassan Abdel Basset and his family left their home in the occupied West Bank to visit a relative. They were going to break their fast together during the … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-many-ways-israeli-settlers-steal-palestinian-homes/feed/ 0