Chana Schoenberger

Africa in Transition

blogs.cfr.org — According to the press, Brazil is negotiating an agreement with Mozambique to finance the construction of the Moamba Major dam to provide drinking water for Maputo. It is expected to cost U.S. $500 million. The Bank of Brazil has funded an environmental impact study for the project.

Chinese Way of Doing Business

nytimes.com — SHANGHAI - Lin Lu remembers the day last December when a Chinese businessman showed up at the car dealership he works for in north China and paid for a new BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo - entirely in cash. "He drove here with two friends in a beat-up Honda," Mr. Lin recalled.

cschoenberger: Dinner to discuss new projects: ...

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A Rough Guide to Predicting the Next Big Bailout, Courtesy of China

blogs.wsj.com — After Cyprus, who's next to fall? Real estate agents in China have their own crude method of identifying the next domino. And it doesn't involve number crunching banks' balance sheets.

Defensive Inflation Plays

blogs.barrons.com — While the U.S. economy is recovering, fueled by the Fed's monetary expansion, to most, high inflation seems a long way off. But some smart folk - such as U. S. Bank Wealth Management's chief executive, Mark Jordahl - are predicting a serious discussion on inflationary pressures by year's end and rates rising in 2014, all in a pre-emptive effort to smother inflationary embers before a wildfire takes hold.

Defensive Inflation Plays

blogs.barrons.com — While the U.S. economy is recovering, fueled by the Fed's monetary expansion, to most, high inflation seems a long way off. But some smart folk - such as U. S. Bank Wealth Management's chief executive, Mark Jordahl - are predicting a serious discussion on inflationary pressures by year's end and rates rising in 2014, all in a pre-emptive effort to smother inflationary embers before a wildfire takes hold.

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Goldman Traders Cede Tokyo Party Bar to Google-Apple Invasion

bloomberg.com — The champagne used to flow at Heartland, the bar in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills complex that drew bankers from the Japan headquarters of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. upstairs. "Every day, there was a party," said Mai Shioya, the 39- year-old manager, who started in May 2008 before the global financial crisis that led to Lehman's bankruptcy.