Google Translate makes investing in international markets, emerging or otherwise, easier than ever. If you are looking at a company website or a foreign-language news source, you can copy the URL, go to Google Translate and paste it in the box, set the source and translation language, and bingo! You have a reasonable translation of… [Read More]
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Category: Emerging Markets
What’s Happening in India?
The Wall Street Journal recently published an essay about India that asks why the country isn’t growing faster. The author is Raghuram Rajan of the University of Chicago, and he blames the political system. These connect to the two obvious issues, corruption and low literacy. India should be an economic giant. It has diverse national… [Read More]
Why I Love the Megahertz Network
I am a huge fan of the Megahertz Network, which offers international television programs. I can get it on a local public television station’s digital channel (WYCC channel 20.3, all you Chicagoans). Other public television stations and Dish Network offer it, and you can find it on your Roku box. Some of the programming is… [Read More]
Eastern European Equity Fund becomes a European Fund
The Eastern European Equity Fund filed a revised prospectus on May 7, 2012: it changed its investment objective from investing 80 percent of its funds into Eastern European countries to investing 80 percent in European countries, east and west, north and south. It’s an interesting move for the fund, which has been highly rated but… [Read More]
On Learning Chinese, or Any Language
Because I’m going to China this summer, I’m trying to learn Chinese. I expect to fail miserably, of course; there’s just no way I can master a language like that in years, let alone weeks. Still, I like the idea of trying, and I think it would be wonderful to be fluent in many languages…. [Read More]
