Price Fixing Always Leads To Scams – Zimbabwe’s Nedbank Latest To Suffer
Us humans are pretty simple to understand - we respond to incentives. This being something that those who govern us don't want to grasp...
Botswana’s Elephant Problem – Just How Do You Make Wild Elephants Valuable?
Things that human beings find valuable tend to increase in number, things that humans find valueless tend to decrease. Things that humans find costly...
Oh, The Joy, The Irony – Kenyan MP Johnny Savula Arrested Over Advertising Graft
In common with a number of other poor places Kenya is wracked with corruption in public office. This being one of the things which...
Papa Renty and Harvard’s Profits From Photos Of Slaves – Bad Law, For The...
That Louis Agassiz held some views which are regarded as both wrong and distasteful these days is true. That he organised for photographs to...
Ethiopia’s Ethio Telecom Privatisation – Capitalism And Getting The Money Now
The Prime Minister of Ethiopia has been known to say that the governing system in that country is now capitalism. Leaving aside that that's...
Bashir’s Sudanese Cash Pile – What, You Mean A Dictator Was Corrupt?
Our word isn't this a real surprise? And a turn up for the books. It's turns out that Omar al-Bashir, the dictator of Sudan,...
Ooops! – System Error Crashes Entire Electricity Grid Of Argentina And Uruguay
The entirety of two countries seems to be without electrical power this morning as a failure in the grid has left both Argentina and...
Zimbabwe Needs To Be Clear – There Was No Shortage Of Foreign Currency
Matters are obviously going to be better now that the RTGS system is trading at market prices, as determined by the interplay of bank...
Of Course Kraft Heinz Bonds Did Better Than Stocks, Seriously, Good Grief
In the annals of investment reporting this comes along as one of those no stercore* Sherlock moments. The bonds didn't fall as far as...
Not Good News For Zimbabwe – VP Mohadi Above The Law It Seems
A useful test of how well a country is doing is whether those who purport to rule it are subject to the same laws...