In Emerging Markets For Dummies, I have a summary of each of the markets in the MSCI Emerging Markets and Frontier indexes. Since publication in January, no markets have changes as much as those of the Middle East and North Africa, so I’m writing updates. The first installment: Bahrain. Type of government: Constitutional monarchy Major… [Read More]
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Ever-Changing Africa
For decades, investors have been hearing that the Next Big Thing will be Africa. I wonder how many people missed out on inflection points in India and China because they were looking at Africa? No matter. Africa, of course, is a continent. The Republic of South Africa has as much in common with Sudan as… [Read More]
I’m giving away one of my new books!
This year marked the release of Emerging Markets for Dummies and the second edition of Day Trading for Dummies. To celebrate, I’m going to give away a copy of one of my books. Interested? If so, leave a comment and tell me which book you would like. (I’d love it if you’d also tell me… [Read More]
The Power of MSCI
Whenever I talk about emerging markets, people want to argue with me. Why is Korea on the list, when it’s as developed as any country out there? How can you say China is an emerging market when its GDP is the world’s second largest? The answer is simple. An emerging market is any that is… [Read More]
Three Cans of Diet Coke
I’m going to add three cents to the discussion about Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea, the book about his embellished school-building program in Afghanistan. First, the expose by Jon Krakauer, longer than an article but shorter than a book, is available online through a new service, Byliner, that hopes to commercialize more works of… [Read More]
