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TRANSCRIPT: Nomad Capitalist Report Radio Show Interview
I was interviewed for the weekly Nomad Capitalist radio show over the weekend, hosted by Andrew Henderson. On the agenda: the Africa-China relationship, putting the hot-or-not test to Frontier Markets...
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A Perfect Example Of Why Diplomats Should Never Be Trusted On The Economy
Yes, that’s right: NEVER. War, yes. Economy, no. I know this has been a very Mexico-heavy week, but there’s been a lot of activity here and I’m angling for some other things coming next week, so stay...
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Countries Succeed And Fail According To Leaders’ Choices
May seem obvious, but sometimes we need to be reminded of the blindingly obvious. I challenge you to find a more worthy way to spend the next three minutes of your time. Here we have Nasir El-Rufai,...
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The Only Hugo Chavez Obituaries You Need To Read
One is out today, from Time’s Tim Padgett. Here’s a sampling: Chávez called himself a “21st-century socialist.” In reality he was a throwback to the dogmatic and authoritarian 20th-century socialism of...
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Know Your Audience, China-Africa Edition
This has been building for a long time. The latest is this CNN interview with Dambisa Moyo, she of “Dead Aid” fame, entitled, “China Can Transform Africa“. A couple of comments caught my eye:...
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Basic Strategy For Hyping An Investment Trend
I’ve seen this happen so many times, I could teach a class on it: Take a small data sample of something that confirms the view you’re determined to promote; Regardless of how rigorous the methodology...
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A Dissection Of Market Manipulation In The Diamond Industry
Priceonomics put up a stunning take last week on the market mechanics of diamonds which spurred a lot of reactions. Worth reading in full, and here are some excerpts to give you an idea: “Americans...
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What The BRICS Really Have In Common
Sometimes news editors exercise such brain-dead judgment that it’s a wonder journalism as a practice even survives. That sentence was one of a few I conjured up as a possible lead-off thought. Well,...
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Video Of The Day: A Real Journalist Questions A Real Banker
This has become such a rarity, you really need to just put aside five minutes to watch this: Related PostsMexico’s last locally-owned bank, democracy today and PRI 2.0 Photo of the Day: The importance...
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Everything You Know About Africa Is Wrong
Morten Jerven, economic historian of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has me hooked just with this single comment: The demand for numbers is overwhelming. The data will be created, invented or...
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Diverging Markets Turns One Year Old
Actually, at this point we’re at one year and one month but I was too caught up in other stuff to do this last month. So I’ve been looking at the site metrics for the first year of operation from March...
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Taxation With Representation, By Mustafa Mond
I am pleased to present a new guest contributor today, who goes by the tag of Mustafa Mond, presumably inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. In recognition of today as that annual rite of...
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Assessing Televisa’s Political Risk in Mexico
Mexico watchers up to date on the landmark reforms underway in Mexico can skip straight down to the section below where the block quotes begin. For the rest of you not up to speed, the Mexican...
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Map Of The Day: Mexico Drug War Update
The Washington Post published this the other day: Accompanying it is a rather lengthy article (here), not to be missed, detailing the evolving intelligence challenges since Enrique Peña Nieto took...
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The Cost of VIP Status, Super Bowl Edition
Northern winter is finally over, which means it’s time to start thinking about — what else? — next year’s Super Bowl, which will be the first in the New York area and the first in outdoor cold weather...
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Plain English: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear
This video stands to have an immediate impact on your income if you have anything to do with politics, journalism, public relations, branding, marketing or communications of any kind. This video stands...
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The First Rule Of Fighting Narcos: You Do Not Talk About Fighting Narcos
Regular readers know it isn’t very often that I re-publish in full something from elsewhere, but this is too important and I have no doubt that the majority of you are not in the habit of reading the...
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The press as a lagging indicator, continued
Folha de Sao Paulo has made this easy for us. Here are a couple of Economist covers, four years apart: Honestly, when it’s not so tiresome, it’s actually amusing how blind people can be. I honestly...
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Mexican congressman to colleagues: “Privatize This”
So, as you may or may not have heard, Mexican Congress has just passed some rather historic oil reforms, much to the consternation of a lot of people. Herein, one congressman’s protest at the lack of...
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Diverging Markets Focusing on Financial Media Strategy
Several factors have converged in recent years to increase demand for strategic communications expertise in the financial industry. As a result, many firms accustomed to maintaining a low profile and...
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