by Chip Krakoff The world is discovering Africa. By Africa, I mean sub-Saharan Africa. The North African countries from Morocco to Egypt are generally lumped together with the Middle Eastern countries with which they share much closer ethnic, religious, and economic ties. I am writing about the other...
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Filed under: Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, Africa, Guinness, Heineken, Equatorial Guinea, GEMs, Charles Krakoff, McKinsey, BCG, Sudan, Nicaragua, Monitor, World Bank, official development assistance, SABMiller, Vodaphone, MTN, Zain, Mark Mobius, market based solutions, Seychelles, Tajikistan, Coca-Cola, Bharti
I subscribe to the “Stock Gumshoe” blog, which specializes in ferreting out the truth behind those teaser ads for scores of investment newsletters and tipsheets that promise you 1,400% returns in six months, but only if you take advantage of this limited time subscription offer, a $1,000...
The day after the U.S. Presidential election last November, the satirical weekly The Onion led with the headline “Black Man Gets Nation’s Worst Job”. The July 12 lead article in the South African non-satirical weekly, The Mail & Guardian, makes it clear that Barack Obama has no...
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Anonymous
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Filed under: South Africa, Zimbabwe, Africa, expropriation, political risk, banking, mining, black empowerment, investment risk, nationalization, Zuma
Here is a comment I have posted in a LinkedIn forum on the global economic crisis, in which various serious and fanciful proposals for replacing the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency have been discussed . Carbon emissions credits or kilowatt hours are a poor medium of exchange for the...
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Filed under: Crisis, silver, carbon credits, electricity, Germany, store of value, cigarettes, Zimbabwe, U.S. dollar, reserve currency, energy, inflation, gold standard