David Mensah

David Mensah runs the business and economy desk at Cubed News, where his job is to make money make sense — to explain markets, companies and the broader economy to readers who are intelligent but not specialists, without dumbing the subject down or dressing it up. His coverage spans financial markets, the firms that move them, the macroeconomic forces underneath, the banking and finance system, and the venture-backed startups testing what comes next. He treats economics as a way of understanding how societies allocate scarce things, not as a closed conversation for insiders.

His editorial instinct is to look past the daily price tick to the structure beneath it. A market's move is rarely the story; the reason for it usually is. Mensah pushes his desk to ask what a corporate result actually reveals about a business, what an economic indicator measures and what it leaves out, and whether a much-hyped startup has built something durable or merely something fundable. He is wary of the financial press's habit of mistaking volatility for significance, and he holds his writers to explaining cause before consequence.

On standards, he is unsparing about numbers. Figures are sourced to the institutions that produce them — central banks, statistical offices, company filings, the IMF and World Bank — and are never invented or rounded into something they are not. Where a precise figure cannot be verified, he prefers an honest description of direction and magnitude to a false precision. He treats the line between analysis and prediction with care, and he forbids the kind of confident forecasting the subject does not actually support.

Mensah frames business journalism through the publication's three dimensions: the context of how an economy or a company reached this point, the perspectives of the workers, investors, customers and policymakers with something at stake, and the consequences for ordinary people whose jobs, savings and prices ride on decisions made far above them. His conviction is that economic reporting fails when it serves only those who already have capital, and succeeds when it helps everyone else understand the system they live inside. His work anchors the publication's business and economy coverage.