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In retrospect, no one should be surprised at recent moves by the Egyptian armed forces to consolidate their power, in what some have called a soft coup d’état. Although the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled the country since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, maintains that...
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07-11-2012
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Filed under: Egypt, GEMs, Charles Krakoff, Morsi, Islamists, Mubarak, Sadat, Tahrir, Muslim Brotherhood, Nasser, Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Ahmed Shafiq
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By Charles Krakoff With the exception of Bahrain, where anti-government protests were violently suppressed by the ruling royal family with military support from Saudi Arabia, the kingdoms and sheikhdoms of the Arabian Gulf – in America we refer to it as the Persian Gulf, but that terminology does...
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02-03-2012
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Filed under: Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Egypt, UAE, Charles Krakoff, Iraq, Kuwait Energy, Bahrain, Doha, Shia, Sunni, Kuwait Petroleum, Kuwait, GCC, Qatar, Dow Chemical, Libya, Gulf Cooperation Council, oil price, Arab Spring
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Egypt Was Just the First Domino to Fall 2. Just What is the “Muslim Brotherhood”? 3. The Caliphate – Islamists’ Ultimate Goal 4. About the Looming Debt Ceiling Showdown Introduction Political uprisings have spread across the Middle East and North Africa. Mass...
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Mubarak resigned, journalists packed their gear, and CNN went back to talking about obesity statistics - but Egypt's troubles are far from over. After weeks of protests (leading to strikes and, understandably, no tourists), the country's economy took an estimated 1.5 billion-dollar punch to the...
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So now we’re hearing stories that the Mubarak government in Egypt is bribing citizens with promises of food to take to the streets and violently confront the protestors. Pro-Mubarak demonstrators have been linked to attacks in foreign journalists. It would seem as though the Egyptian military will...
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When protests started in Egypt last week, mainstream news outlets cried "democracy!" and compared the situation in Egypt to the Berlin Wall and Tienanmen Square. Meanwhile, STRATFOR (an intelligence company I've followed for years) spoke of a different possibility. At the time it...
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Bloomberg reports that Brent crude prices topped $103 a barrel today. Brent crude is the benchmark for two-thirds of the world's oil supply. Global oil markets are clearly concerned about escalating troubles in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen and a handful of other Middle Eastern countries. The potential...
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The correction we’ve been monitoring certainly picked up some steam on Friday. The rioting in Egypt gave investors an easy excuse to drive stocks sharply lower. And there should be no surprise that tech stocks and the Nasdaq bore the brunt of the selling. Tech stocks were strong momentum trades...
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The Recent GDP Numbers – A Real Statistical Recovery Consumer Spending Rose? Where Was the Income? A Bubble in Complacency Egypt Rosie, Las Vegas, Phuket, and Bangkok This week I had the privilege of being on the same panel with former Comptroller General David Walker and former Majority Leader...
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by Chip Krakoff on January 5, 2011 will give Jim O’Neill, the Goldman Sachs banker who in 2001 coined the term “BRICs”, the benefit of the doubt. I suspect he meant to create a simple shorthand to refer to the big emerging economies likely to matter most over the next 10 years or so...
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Charles Krakoff
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01-06-2011
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Filed under: China, India, Brazil, Russia, Nigeria, BRIC, Egypt, Indonesia, GEMs, Charles Krakoff, Vietnam, Mexico, Ethiopia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Pakistan, killer bees
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My most recent blog post, discussing whether Barack Obama is good or bad for business, attracted more, and more vociferous, comments than anything else I have ever posted, apart from one article I wrote expressing mild skepticism about the utility of Apple’s new iPad (lesson: don’t criticize...
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10-13-2010
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Filed under: China, Russia, Obama, Senegal, Haiti, Egypt, ethanol subsidies, Vietnam, Cameroon, commodity prices, Cargill, high dructose corn syrup, corn, Archer Daniels Midland, corn subsidies, food riots, Republican, Democrat, corn ethanol, corporate welfare, Tate & Lyle, Ajinomoto, obesity
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Crossing the Kasr el Nil Bridge that spans the Nile in central Cairo at eleven o’clock at night is like walking down 42 nd Street in New York at rush hour, only more crowded. Cairo is the real city that never sleeps, and never more so than the current month of Ramadan, when Muslims refrain from...