Originally published in the Informanté newspaper on Thursday, May 21, 2015.
By the end of June 2015, China will have launched its own international financial institution. Called the Asian Infrastructure…
For the financial markets, 2016 started quite ignominiously. Stocks worldwide recorded some of the worst first week openings in history, with the Dow Jones down 6.2% and the S&P 500 down 6%. In London the FTSE 100 lost 5.3% for the week…
Knowledge is power. The earliest use of this phrase is from Imam Ali, the first imam of Shia Islam, who said (translated from Arabic), “Knowledge is power and it can command obedience. A man of…
Constitution Day is once again approaching, and as we marvel once again at its remarkable role in our sovereign, secular, democratic and unitary state that secures for us all justice, liberty, equality and fraternity, we…
From the birth of the human species in Africa 200 000 years ago, humanity started to spread, and by 1500 years ago, humanity had spread out across almost every landmass on earth, save for Antarctica. The Earth was ours. True, movement was not…
Originally published in the Informanté newspaper on Thursday, August 6, 2015.
Since the start of his Presidency, President Hage Geingob has been an unceasing campaigner for a more transparent…
It is well known that in today’s market, you cannot afford to be slow. The pace of technological change is rapid, and if you fail to make the changes required to your business, a newer, young competitor will pull the rug from…
Originally published in the Informanté newspaper on Thursday, March 26, 2015.
Investor-State Dispute Settlement. A clause in bilateral and multilateral trade agreements that sounds so uninteresting…
Tomorrow, exactly 211 years ago, one man managed to change the course of history, and shape the world that was to come. But first, let me set the stage — the year was 1805. The First French…
Last week, former pyramid scheme Herbalife Ltd had to change the way the company operates and pay a US$ 200 million fine in order to avoid being explicitly labelled a pyramid scheme by the FTC in the United States. Herbalife in future will now…