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Afam Edozie — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:28:36 -0400

Wall St is shrinking from 40% of profit (pre crisis) to 5% (historic norm for financial services.) Wall St pay will remain good (despite being under scrutiny,) but the numbers employed will be much lower. Wall St will also have its fair share of start-ups. www.smartinvestorafrica.com

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Afam Edozie — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:13:39 -0400

Being the largest creditor to the US (and Europe) it could be argued that the Chinese already own the ranch. And they bought the the way the US did (prior to the age of debt) by being the largest onwer of Gold.

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Afam Edozie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:11:59 -0400

i) Real stuff - Oil, Uranium, Natural Gas, Coal, Corn, Wheat, Rice, Soy, Gold, Platinum, Silver, Aluminium, Copper, Zinc, Iron Ore - buy the commodities themselves, or buy the companies that mine them cheaply, and are able to replace their reserves faster than they deplete them. Asia and India's 2.5 billion people are getting richer and will be demanding more of this stuff.

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Afam Edozie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:43:28 -0400

i) In the capitalist system, people who found and own businesses should be entitled to anything they create.

ii) As for execs then no exec should earn as total remuneration more than 500 times the lowest paid worker in the same organisation.

It is not required for motivation (of the exec or his underlings), for survival or for anything else. And it is not 'fair' pay, because no one in the organisation (except the founder) contributes more than 500 times the worker.

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Afam Edozie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:13:15 -0400

It is the nature of man to exploit his fellow man, whether man on man, village on village, clan on clan or nation on nation. To deny this is a triple failure, failing to understand our history, failing to understand the purpose of law, and failing to understand what goes on in every school yard in the world.

Europeans, Americans, Chinese and Indians all come to Africa with a view to what they can take out, not what they can put in. They have always done so and I don’t see a world in my lifetime where I will expect anything different.

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Afam Edozie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:44:33 -0400

The United States and the West are no more special to Africa than any other country or group of countries that can provide markets for their goods, capital for their industry and expertise for their development. During the cold war the US understood this. For sure before the emergence of Asia the United States and the West had much more of these things than others and was therefore perceived as more important.

The great mistakes of US foreign policy (if I can call them mistakes) are that the US does not to have a strategy nor to have any 'real' values that they adhere to.