I reviewed the book Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil, by John Ghazvinian at Amazon, and thought I should cross post here. The long and short of it: don’t waste your time. I gave it one measly star.

Here’s the (very short) review:

Having just finished The Prize, Daniel Yergin’s excellent book about the history [...]

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From Russia, with corruption

The Economist has a nice report in this week’s issue about Russia. It’s filled with much that is known (that is, if you spend even a small amount of time following Russia, as I do), such as the level of corruption and state interference in most industries. But it also has some surprising [...]

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