Confidence?
Curve balls?
Persevered?
Pivots?
Sounds like someone's out of their intellectual depth & comfort zone.
Or perhaps, just like all the rest.

Very good comment. Thanks.

The entire "financial industry" is a cancer on humanity.
As one expert says, "Real engineers build bridges and buildings. Financial engineers build dreams. Which then become nightmares."
These jackasses get rich by producing nothing. They merely suck off the teats of those who work for a living.
This has become so normalized that we don't even recognize it anymore.
Sad.

Umm, I think that was made clear in the short article above.

Worse than ashamed, I feel sad. For a country that has had so much promise and so many opportunities? The only thing that will come out of this domestically is more excuses.
As Christmas approaches, as inflation rises, as our government continues to dawdle on the important issues, we will witness this trend toward lawlessness.
Tourists being shot on the Family Islands. Robbed at gunpoint in Nassau. More pontificating to the clueless by the Christian ministers. Higher and higher prices for tourists and residents alike. Our politicians are just like the same grabby ones who came before.
Almost seems like we don't want those who contribute the 80% to our GDP to come here.
Those of us who may be paying attention see clearly the nationwide implications of our poor attitudes.
What government worker thinks they will have a job when our tourist sector collapses?
What government official boasting about VAT revenues thinks we are looking at a positive trend here?
Are we all fools?

What cannot be argued, despite the volume of so-called statistics, basically numbers that sound good out of context, is the fact that The Bahamas has a very regressive tax system. There is nothing Christian about our current taxation of the people. Those at the top, who spout financial nonsense, also claim to be Christian? With all their learning, and they still don't get it? Oh, they do, but value their status and paychecks more than Christian values. Now I get it.

Please do your research. Perhaps you were kidding, but the shark population in collapsing globally. Just like conch populations. But, sometimes if you see them locally abundant and have no desire or ability to study the science, one might think that their little corner of the world is just like ours. It ain't. We are merely irresponsible due to willful ignorance.

You are right. I am taking what is being told to us. As you say, fancy accounting is what the best accountants are paid handsomely for doing.

This is a lesson, which we will not likely heed.
The lesson is this: All of the financial experts, including business reporters are clueless.
The whole financial industry is a puffed up bunch of false claims and hopes.
The value of the stock market and digital assets are based on clueless faith in their product by supposedly smart people. Do the realities not prove this over and over?.
How many Bahamians own stock, or crypto currency? In a country of price control?
These companies sway and outright bribe the politicians and regulators here, and everywhere.
They provide no value to a nation's economy except the few tenuous jobs they provide to justify their rape of the economy.
Will we ever learn? Was the bible not fairly explicit about this love of money and the money changers? So, where are the real Christians now?
When people are more prone to believe, than accept knowledge and evidence, this is where we end up.
For the Bahamian people, this FTX scandal means little. Yet, as many commenters have pointed out, it is merely one of a long list of scams and scandals which our politicians seem to have a penchant for.
The real scandal is that we spend between $1,000,000.00 and $2,000,000.00 each and every day paying interest only, for the loans The Bahamian political establishment has taken out in our name. Each day this money leaves our shores merely to pay interest.
Trust me, every prominent Bahamian politician has an exit strategy. Property and bank accounts elsewhere. Why? Because they are well aware of how they have compromised the future of this country. Take a close look at the financial status of each and every important Bahamian government department. The Bahamas is nearing a 100% debt to GDP ratio. This is not sustainable for a country like The Bahamas.
We do understand what happens to a country when they start defaulting on their loans, don't we? They start taking our national assets.
Our Central Bank governor and Finance ministers are not just smart. They are also nearly silent on the very real predicament The Bahamas is in. Their job security comes about by the continued obscuring of reality and the need for radical political change.

Who are the real sharks when a family has to appeal to donors to pay their medical bills?
The world in 2022. My, haven't we come a long way..........?