by Adnan Zai | Aug 11, 2020 | Private Equity
The stock market might be acting like the biggest rollercoaster at the county fair, but publicly traded stocks and bonds are no longer the only game in town. We’re in the midst of seeing a paradigm shift from mainstream, publicly accessible markets, like stocks and...
by Adnan Zai | Jul 15, 2020 | Global Economy
As some states are forced to pause their re-opening plans because of surging COVID-19 cases, the question must be asked: Are we on the brink of another 2008 for banks that do a bulk of their business in real estate loans? More than a decade ago, the crisis came when...
by Adnan Zai | Jun 19, 2020 | Global Economy
China is one of just eight nations in the world to possess more than 100 nuclear warheads in its military arsenal. Along with the other seven – India, Israel, Pakistan, France, UK, Russia, and the US – that means that at any time, if it was so inclined, it could...
by Adnan Zai | Jun 1, 2020 | Global Economy
The coronavirus might be here to stay, but that doesn’t mean that people are committed to riding it out in their big-city residences. A staggering one-third of Americans – some 109 million people – are at least considering a move to a place with a less dense...
by Adnan Zai | Mar 9, 2020 | Business
The big name in delivery is Amazon, which normalized the idea of unlimited and free single-day shipping. They seem to be dominating the e-commerce game, but a new big and familiar competitor is set to shake up the board: Walmart. Walmart has long been a retail giant,...
