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Emerging market debt 2015-2017
02/16/2016
Grouped Articles
Emerging-Market Debt: How Big a Threat Is It?
Wall Street Journal 02/16/2016
South Africa's economy 2014-2017
12/12/2015
Grouped Articles
South Africa’s Rand Falls to Record Low After Finance Minister’s Dismissal
Wall Street Journal 12/12/2015
Zuma under fire for sacking finance minister | Africa | DW.COM | 31.03.2017
DW.COM 03/31/2017
Moody's downgrades South Africa over politics, debt | News | DW | 10.06.2017
DW.COM 06/10/2017
End of Apartheid in South Africa? Not in Economic Terms
The New York Times 10/24/2017
South Africa Sees Fresh Start for Economy, With the Same Challenges
The New York Times 02/15/2018
Opinion | South Africa’s Zuma Leaves Behind a Broken Democracy
The New York Times 02/14/2018
Weaker currencies in emerging markets leading to expansion by mining companies in 2015
10/23/2015
The expansion is leading to further price declines.
Grouped Articles
Why Miners Keep Expanding, as Prices Collapse
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2015
The caution in raising rates of the U.S. Federal Reserve in 2015 and memories of the emerging market crisis in 1997
09/17/2015
In 1997 Federal Reserve rate increases worsened the situation in the fragile Mexican economy, with Mexico needing a large bank bailout. Contagion to other countries was also a large problem at the time. Harvard economists Kenneth Rogoff and Larry Summers, cite the situation facing emerging markets with the sharp fall in commodity prices and the decline in the value of the currencies, particularly Brazil, Indonesia and Russia, countries dependent on commodity exports, creating risks in the global economy that the Fed could not ignore. The debt crisis in China and slowing economy, with missteps by the government in handling the stock market decline, happened in August-September 2015, creating added uncertainty- making Sept 15, 2015, too soon for the Fed to risk even a modest 0.25% increase in rates.
Grouped Articles
Watching the Fed, and Remembering the Tequila Crisis
New York Times 09/18/2015
Fed Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged
New York Times 09/17/2015
Gloom on Brazil Finances Deepens
Wall Street Journal 12/17/2015
Why China’s Market Fell So Much
Wall Street Journal 01/05/2016
Why China’s Market Illness Has Gotten More Contagious
Wall Street Journal 01/12/2016
A January Pause, but Fed Affirms Plan for Gradual Rate Increases
New York Times 01/27/2016
Kenneth Rogoff on the financial crisis in China with debt exceeding 270% of GDP, shadow banking, real estate bubble and unsustainable local government finances
08/24/2015
Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, is an expert on financial and debt crises, with the most extensive quantitative study of debt crises of 66 countries with Carmen Reinhart. The research is published in the book, "This Time Is Different." He discusses the debt crisis in China with the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin, saying China is not immune to the problems from an alarming buildup of debt. He says the reason China was seen as impervious to debt problems is because of the high savings rate of 30%, the millions of migrants moving to cities for manufacturing work, and government control of markets. Actually he sees China as a really good example of "This Time Is Different," the notion that somehow it can't happen here. The result is along delay before an event and the sudden speed of the implosion once it hits. The effects Rogoff sees are the risks to commodity producing countries such as Russia, Brazil, and other countries dependent on exports. He says China's large foreign exchange reserves offers a way for it to manage the debt crisis.
Grouped Articles
A Warning on China Seems Prescient
New York Times 08/24/2015
China facing full-blown banking crisis, world's top financial watchdog warns
The Telegraph 09/19/2016
Will Trump herald a US economic boom?
The Guardian 12/07/2016
China’s Economy Grows 6.9%, but Warning Signs Persist
The New York Times 04/17/2017
Moody’s Cuts Its China Rating for the First Time Since 1989
WSJ 05/24/2017
In Downgraded China, Echoes of Japan’s Boom and Bust
WSJ 05/24/2017
U.S. president Obama's trip to Ghana
07/28/2015
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 07/28/2015
Ghana electing next president, parliament | News | DW.COM | 07.12.2016
DW.COM 12/07/2016
Anglo American 53,000 job cuts in 2015 over three years
07/25/2015
Anglos American responds to declining commodity prices and the slowdown in China with deep cuts to its 151,000 workforce.
Grouped Articles
Mining Companies Slash Jobs as Commodities Prices Slide
Wall Street Journal 07/25/2015
Commodities Rout Leaves Anglo American Needing Deals
Wall Street Journal 07/25/2015
Anglo American to Slash Assets, Cut 85,000 Jobs
Wall Street Journal 12/09/2015
Anglo American’s Overhaul: Dire Straits in Mining
Wall Street Journal 12/09/2015
Platinum supplies, prices and South African mines
06/23/2015
Grouped Articles
Platinum Slammed by Supplies, Dollar
Wall Street Journal 06/23/2015
Prosecutor and new U.S. Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, in the U.S. Justice Department's investigation of international soccer association FIFA
05/29/2015
Grouped Articles
FIFA Charges Instantly Earn Loretta Lynch Global Recognition
New York Times 05/29/2015
How Loretta Lynch has investigated the police and not made them all hate her - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/19/2016
PFAS's class of chemicals used in pizza boxes, carpet treatments and other products- the risk of cancer
05/01/2015
Grouped Articles
Commonly Used Chemicals Come Under New Scrutiny
New York Times 05/01/2015
The Uphill Battle to Better Regulate Formaldehyde
New York Times 05/03/2015
South African Airways
04/25/2015
Grouped Articles
South African Airways: Been there
Economist 04/25/2015
The first year of the Buhari administration in Nigeria
04/01/2015
Grouped Articles
Nigerian President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari Sets Out His Agenda
New York Times 04/01/2015
Nigeria Is a Case Study in the Curse of Oil
Wall Street Journal 04/03/2015
Nigeria’s election: Three cheers for democracy
Economist 04/05/2015
Former Strongman, Taking Over Presidency, Raises Hope in Nigeria
New York Times 05/26/2015
Nigeria President Escalates Campaign to Stem Corruption
New York Times 10/16/2015
Nigeria Grapples With Abrupt End to Rapid Growth
Wall Street Journal 04/12/2016
Democracy and term limits in Africa- the improving record for the period 2000-2015 and the work ahead
03/29/2015
Grouped Articles
Share the Pork, Be President for Life
New York Times 03/29/2015
Young, Urban and Poor: Africans Fight Back
WSJ 02/05/2019
Climate change in 2015
12/30/2015
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/30/15
Obama and Xi Formally Commit U.S. and China to Paris Climate Accord
The New York Times 09/03/16
Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification - BBC News
BBC News 09/03/16
Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Dissenter, to Lead E.P.A.
The New York Times 12/07/16
Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Dissenter, to Lead E.P.A.
The New York Times 12/07/16
Clean Energy ‘Moving Forward’ Despite Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Experts Say
The New York Times 12/09/16
Hiring for business and shortage of talent in Africa in 2015
12/09/2015
Grouped Articles
Nurturing Talent Is Hard in Africa
Wall Street Journal 12/09/15
IMF warning for corporate debt in emerging markets increasing from $4 trillion in 2004 to $18 trillion in 2014
09/29/2015
The IMF singles out China and Turkey for large increases in corporate debt since 2007. Concentrated holdings by American mutual funds of emerging market debt securities is seen by the IMF in 2015 as creating potential systemic instability.
Grouped Articles
I.M.F. Cautions on Concentrated Positions in U.S. Mutual Funds
New York Times 09/29/15
Emerging-Market Debt: How Big a Threat Is It?
Wall Street Journal 02/16/16
Berlin's Tempelhof Airport- from the Berlin Airlift with 200,000 flights to deliver food and supplies in 1948-49, to its use for housing refugees in 2015
09/11/2015
Grouped Articles
Berlin Airport Used in Cold War Airlift Gets a New Humanitarian Mission
New York Times 09/11/15
Survey: Germany divided over Merkel's migrant policy changes | Germany | DW.COM | 21.08.2016
DW.COM 08/21/16
Opinion: Berlin, capital of mediocrity | Opinion | DW.COM | 19.09.2016
DW.COM 09/19/16
‘I Dream in Fruit’: What Hunger Looks Like in Syria
10/28/16
Former president F.W. De Klerk (1989-1994) on South Africa in 2015- corruption and economic crisis
08/20/2015
Grouped Articles
The Betrayal of Mandela’s Promise
Wall Street Journal 08/20/15
Wall Street Journal 01/12/16
South Africans Head to Polls Amid Fierce Challenge to Party of Mandela
The New York Times 08/02/16
A.N.C. Loses Pretoria, South Africa’s Capital, as Setbacks Mount
The New York Times 08/06/16
A Seismic Shock for Jacob Zuma
The New York Times 08/09/16
The Economist 08/11/16
U.S. president Obama's visit to Ethiopia in 2015
07/26/2015
Grouped Articles
Ethiopia’s Human Rights Activists See Scant Hope in Obama’s Visit
New York Times 07/26/15
Electricity and power grid in African countries in 2015
07/02/2015
Grouped Articles
Weak Power Grids in Africa Stunt Economies and Fire Up Tempers
New York Times 07/02/15
Zambia Copper Producer Halts Production Over Power Shortages
Wall Street Journal 08/04/15
The Economist 03/09/19
How separate investigations by the IRS and the FBI led to the Justice Department case against FIFA officals
05/29/2015
Matt Apuzzo of the NYT shows how separate investigations of the FBI and the IRS led to the same people involved. The use of American banks for money transfers helps in prosecution of the case in American courts. About $10 million in bribes were paid to bring the World Cup Soccer games to South Africa. Reporters of the The Sunday Times were working on an undercover assignment looking into corruption in FIFA at the time of the investigations by the IRS and the FBI.
Grouped Articles
A U.S. Tax Investigation Snowballed to Stun the Soccer World
New York Times 05/29/15
Bribery Inquiry Drawing Closer to FIFA’s President, Sepp Blatter
New York Times 06/01/15
Sepp Blatter, Under Investigation, to Resign as FIFA President
New York Times 06/02/15
Infrastructure project financing in African countries
05/08/2015
Grouped Articles
African Pensions Funds Invest in Infrastructure Projects
Wall Street Journal 05/08/15
Opinion: 'Marshall Plan with Africa' creates enormous expectations | Germany | DW.COM | 18.01.2017
DW.COM 01/18/17
Young, Urban and Poor: Africans Fight Back
WSJ 02/05/19
Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
04/25/2015
Desmond-Hellmann, a physician by training, grew up in Reno, Nevada. She talks to Adam Bryant about innovation, failure and resilience, and respect for others, how one deals with a person who is struggling so as to bring out the best in that person, as what she looks for in hiring interviews. Her response in meetings where she hears a faint quiver in a voice is to try and dispel any fear in that person from speaking to the CEO directly. Some of this goes back to seeing her father run a drug store in Reno and showing caring for people who needed help. In meeting her own challenges she looks at what kind of a person she needs to be and tries to be that kind of a person.
Grouped Articles
Sue Desmond-Hellmann: Helping People Find Their Sweet Spot
New York Times 04/25/15
Richie Benaud, Australia's cricketer and cricket commentator
04/10/2015
Grouped Articles
Richie Benaud, Commentator Whose Native Tongue Was Cricket, Dies at 84
New York Times 04/10/15
Muhammadu Buhari, elected president of Nigeria in 2015
03/29/2015
Grouped Articles
In Nigeria’s Election, Muhammadu Buhari Defeats Goodluck Jonathan
New York Times 03/31/15
Muhammadu Buhari, a Familiar, and Now Less Divisive, Choice in Nigerian Election
New York Times 03/31/15
Nigeria Is a Case Study in the Curse of Oil
Wall Street Journal 04/03/15
Nigeria’s election: Three cheers for democracy
Economist 04/05/15
Share the Pork, Be President for Life
New York Times 03/29/15
Former Strongman, Taking Over Presidency, Raises Hope in Nigeria
New York Times 05/26/15
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