Earlier this week, several people forwarded me a link to a recent article published by The Economist, which makes the bold claim that Tanzania’s official economic statistics are bogus.
Early in my working life, I decided to save and invest much of my income. I was fortunate to have been exposed to the ideas of compound interest.
The year was 1981. My father’s company, Maersk Drilling, a subsidiary of Danish conglomerate AP Moeller, had just posted him to Singapore.
If you followed me into the two gold stocks I wrote about back in April, you should be grinning from ear to ear.
I’ve written before that the stock market is currently a very strange place. Despite one of the biggest shocks to the global economy in decades from the coronavirus pandemic, and




