At annual forum, experts debate subsidies, terrorism, free markets

CAIRO: Before the close of Egypt’s International Economic Forum this year, chairman Shafik Gabr reminded the audience that the United States was able to force France, Israel and the United Kingdom out of Sinai in 1956 largely because it held so much British debt. The message was that the current financial turmoil is about more than the balance sheets of banks and automakers — it is about the balance of nations’ power. Celebrating its 10th year, the forum invited panelists and audience from...