Tag: Agriculture

Burmese History – A Guide for the Future?

I wrote recently about the “crowd” high-tailing it out of Mongolia for Myanmar. They’ve gone to poke around and will likely leave the country with tales of beauty and opportunity, but not much else. Hot money (or in the case of Myanmar, hot money investors) will ruminate on how to

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Investing in the World’s Longest-Running Civil War

Burma has been in an almost perpetual state of civil war since 1949. Human rights violations, brutal oppression against a mostly un-armed populace, child trafficking, and living conditions I would not subject a dog to (a central banker yes… a dog no) have been synonymous with Burma since its independence

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Predicting Prosperity: Economic Success Over the Millennia

Five thousand years ago the fact that Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain stuck out from Europe into the Atlantic was a huge geographical disadvantage. All the action at the time was in Mesopotamia and Egypt, as this was where technology and wealth were the greatest. The only means of traveling

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