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Sunday Perspective: Argentina? Almost. Welcome to life in Emerging 

Back in the spring of 1998, when Boris Yeltsin was still at Russia's helm, I led a group of global investors to Moscow to find out firsthand where...

Sunday Perspective: Argentina? Almost. Welcome to life in Emerging 

Back in the spring of 1998, when Boris Yeltsin was still at Russia's helm, I led a group of global investors to Moscow to find out firsthand where...

Sovereign wealth fund tease: now Latin America is considering getting into the game 

China's announcement in August 2007 that it too would be entering the ranks of those countries with sovereign wealth funds by setting up the China...

Sovereign wealth fund tease: now Latin America is considering getting into the game. 

Cry for Latin America: those narrow sovereign debt spreads and booming stock markets have been a mirage 

It has often been quipped that Brazil is a country of the future and will always remain so. Looking at recent Latin American economic and political...

Sorry times at club med: why the next emerging market crisis won't involve an emerging market 

Once when asked a woman's age, Oscar Wilde replied that she was approaching thirty. He added, however, that she was approaching thirty from the...

Captain Rato and the Titanic: the growing irrelevance of the International Monetary Fund 

On evaluating the International Monetary Fund's management of today's highly imbalanced global economy, one cannot help but be reminded of the...

Even Turkeys fly when the winds are strong: ignore the hype about a new Latin American paradigm 

Among the more useful lessons that I learned during my six years on Wall Street came from a seasoned, if cynical, Salomon Brothers bond trader. He...

Bad politics = poor economics.(economic aspects of Middle East) 

There is no region more in need of fundamental economic reform than the Middle East. According to the U.N., one out of five residents lives on...

Chasing yield: how the emerging market debt trading community is playing a dangerous game 

A highly successful emerging market bond trader once told me that he owed his success to his mentor's maxim: whenever you trade Latin American...