We’ve been hearing a lot about the government potentially defaulting on their loans if the debt ceiling isn’t raised. This is causing wide concern among the global market. Everyone’s talking about how the European and Chinese markets are reacting, but there’s not much dialogue about how it would affect the average American. We all know [...]

It might seem very foolhardy of us for continuously writing on and on about investment opportunities in Africa. And we don’t blame you for that, and it is common for many US-based investors to think of investing in African stocks as impractical at best, and foolhardy at worst. To keep things short here are a [...]

In the eyes of the investment world, Africa is widely viewed as a complete basket case. Comparisons with Asia, which also suffered the indignities of colonial exploitation, are particularly irksome, since certain people in Africa blame colonialism for the continent’s many economic failures. The World Bank estimates that real income per head in the 48 [...]

Mainland China has been subject to the biggest stock market booms and busts of the past five years. The Shanghai Composite soared from a low of 1,030 in June 2005 to a high of 6,036 in October 2007, before plummeting back down to 1,706 by November 2008. Since then, Shanghai has rallied back to 2,652 [...]