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How the Strait of Hormuz Crisis Is Still Reshaping Your Cup of Coffee
Six months after the war in the Gulf first shut the world's busiest oil corridor, the strait is still only half-open, insurance markets are still repricing risk by the hour, and the cost is still moving through the global economy — all the way down to the price on a café menu board. This is what second-order risk looks like when it stops being theoretical. The next time you buy a flat white on the way to work, consider this: one of the biggest risks to its price has not been

Melvin Chew
6 hours ago11 min read
The Fish That Got Away
When Indonesian aquaculture start-up eFishery collapsed into fraud, criminal charges and a fire-sale liquidation, it wiped out roughly US$300 million in investor capital. It punctured a decade-old myth: that a strong balance sheet, a Big Four auditor's signature and blue-chip co-investors were proof enough that a company was what it claimed to be. Founder Gibran Huzaifah's nine-year prison sentence for embezzlement and money laundering closed one chapter. The more uncomfortab

Melvin Chew
6 hours ago3 min read
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