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“I had a farm in Africa …” (opens the original)
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IntroductionThis post is research; it is not financial advice. I am not a qualified financial advisor. Consult a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions. I have no financial or other interests anywhere in Africa, though I did once (spring, 1983) briefly work as an unpaid French-English interpreter for a guy selling what was maybe a hot Mercedes (?) outside a Maradi hotel to a Nigerian buyer.The Dangote Group is listing shares in its oil refinery on the Nigerian Exchange (N
Memo to Michael Kremer (opens the original)
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Congratulations on your appointment as Chief Economist. The good newsYou have an interesting job, with many wonderful colleagues, some freedom to study interesting and important things, you don’t have to deal with Larry Summers looking over your shoulder, and you won’t have Jeffrey Epstein putting one of his proteges between you and the President of the Bank (or so one hopes).The bad newsThe bad news — if you plan to re-orient the Bank to greater development impact—is that you face the same inst
The irresponsibility of the IMF and the World Bank in Senegal (opens the original)
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The Senegalese debt saga has taken on some features of the Greek disaster of a decade ago. A heavily indebted country is stuck in a currency union1 from which it cannot flee or escape by devaluation, owes a fortune to the other members of the union, has little or no fiscal space to make profitable public investments (though there are many throughout West Africa), has exhausted the resources of the regional central bank, and has leaders who pretend that endless “dialogue avec les partenaires soci
The FT must do a better job of disclosing the conflicts of its sources (opens the original)
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This post links three things: the PE-insurance relation in the US; the financing of the AI data center boom; and the FT’s editorial omissions in covering that boom. Specifically: (1) how PE buys insurers and loads their asset base with private credit; (2) how the AI data centers are financed, in part, through complex private debt structures that probably should not be sold to retail investors; and (3) how the FT lets sellers of high-yield debt advertise without full risk disclosure.The FT has do
Why is the FT doing access journalism ? (opens the original)
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After the surrender of the NYT and the Post to Trumpism, with the Economist sailing indecisively between the imperialist Scylla of Blair and the isolationist Charybdis of Johnson, with the LA Times being the West Coast promo man for Big Pharma, the FT is the best that remains but one must read it critically.The FT does some good work, especially on those companies or funds that are now sailing in fine weather with no forecasts of monsters or whirlpools. The recent portrait of Chris Hohn’s fund i
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