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Yousef Iskandar — writer for Al Jazeera Network, Independent Arabia, and the Binance platform
On November 14, 2026, KAVA suffered an unprecedented sharp crash within a short period. Its price fell from around $0.068 to historic lows between $0.025 and $0.036, recording losses of more than 40% in just a few hours and, on some platforms, dropping by over 55–60% within 24 hours. The cause was not a technical correction or a market-wide sell-off, but an exploit targeting the network’s main lending protocol: Kava Lend.

Youssef Iskandar – writer and financial analyst. I write for Al Jazeera Network, Independent Arabia, and the Binance platform.
Bitcoin experienced one of its steepest declines of 2026 in recent days, with its price falling from nearly $81,000 at the start of the month to below $64,000, its lowest level since mid-August. Weekly losses exceeded 13–14%, and at some points reached more than 20% since late October, amid a widespread wave of liquidations and growing market concerns.

An analytical look at the period from October 21 to November 21, 2026
In October 2025, Bitcoin reached an all-time high of around $126,000, reflecting growing demand for digital assets and the increasing presence of institutional investors through spot-traded funds. Nearly a year later, the world’s largest cryptocurrency is trading at around $82,800, about 34% below that peak. But the more important question is not why Bitcoin has fallen so far, but whether its current stability marks the beginning of a new price floor—or merely a temporary pause in a correction that is not yet over.

My article in The Independent today
The Jordanian Economy: Citizens and Reports
There are two pictures of the Jordanian economy in 2026. In the first, presented in reports by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the kingdom appears to be a resilient economy in a highly turbulent region: the dinar is stable, the banking sector is robust, foreign reserves are strong, inflation has remained contained, and the economy continues to grow despite war and regional turmoil. In the second picture, the one citizens experience every day, economic life is much harder: limited income, bank loan repayments, high unemployment, and prices that have not returned to where they were years ago. The paradox is that both pictures are true at the same time.