Land Rush in Africa – BusinessWeek

Posted by Matt in November 28th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Africa, Acreage, Agribusinesses, Agriculture, Arab Oil, Businessweek, Crops, Developing Countries, Farmland, Fascination, Fear, Goldman Sachs, Homelands, Investor, Land Rush, Latin-America, Morgan Stanley, Oil Countries, Sachs Gs, Tracts, Water Land

Farmland in developing countries has become an unlikely object of investor fascination. Goldman Sachs (GS), and Morgan Stanley (MS) are each raising hundreds of millions of dollars for agriculture funds aimed at Africa and Latin America. Agribusinesses in the U.S. are leasing vast tracts of African land from which they expect to export crops and [...]

China, gold, and the civilization shift – Telegraph Blogs

Posted by Matt in November 26th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Financial, Aaa Club, Bloc, Blogs, Buying Gold, China Gold, civilization, Commodity, Debtors, Economic Powers, Fiat, Fiat Currencies, Gdp, Gold, Gold Story, India, Large Scale, Middle East, Morgan Stanley, Russia, Telegraph, Threshold

Mr Jen is an expert on sovereign wealth funds from his days at Morgan Stanley. The gold story — essentially — is that the rising economic powers of Asia, the Middle East, and the commodity bloc are rejecting Western fiat currencies. China, India, and Russia have all been buying gold on a large scale over [...]

China’s Economy: Behind All the Hype – BusinessWeek

Posted by Matt in October 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Economy, beijing, Businessweek, Chairman Stephen, China Economy, China S Economy, Chinese Achievements, Commercial Jets, Delve, Economic Leadership, High Speed Trains, Horizon, Hype, Impressive Growth, Leadership Experts, Morgan Stanley, Rebound, Roach, Shortfall, Stimulus Package, Sustainable Growth

Despite an impressive rebound, an innovation shortfall may hobble sustainable growth
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But delve beneath the muscular statistics and hype about advances in strategic industries, and China doesn’t seem so prepared to catapult into a role of global economic leadership. Experts familiar with highly touted Chinese achievements such as commercial jets and high-speed trains say the technologies [...]