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| Renewable Energy: Bold Targets, Little Progress | | By Siseko Njobeni, 10 Nov 2008, 07:49 AM | | With the country pre-occupied with finding solutions to its electricity supply shortage, less is heard of the development of a renewable energy industry. |
| Stealing Their Future | | By Staff, 10 Nov 2008, 09:18 AM | | Diamonds are the most concentrated source of wealth in the world, and nobody knows this better than the syndicates that smuggle these stones out of mining companies on the west coast. |
| Tax Breaks For Venture Capitalists | | By Alastair Morphet Routledge Modise in association with Eversheds, 10 Nov 2008, 09:23 AM | | About two years ago there was media coverage about South Africa adopting something similar to what the Canadian tax regime has, namely, a form of flow-through company. The idea was to assist the development of junior mining companies by passing the tax breaks that a mining company is eligible for to its shareholders in the period before the company generates sufficient taxable income from production to utilise the costs generated by its mining activities. |
| No Nerves At Rio Tinto | | By Charlotte Mathews, 10 Nov 2008, 08:17 AM | | Global resources giant Rio Tinto is developing new mining projects, extending the life of its old ones, and looking for new projects in Africa, particularly southern Africa. |
| Corruption Happens, Lobbying Rules | | By Nauro F. Campos, 10 Nov 2008, 11:01 AM | | This article presents evidence that lobbying is not only much more prevalent in developing countries than previously thought but also much more effective than corruption as a means of influencing public policy and supporting enterprise growth. |
| What's Up, Doc? | | By Bud Conrad, Chief Economist, 10 Nov 2008, 05:08 PM | | Under Bernanke's direction, the Federal Reserve has completely rewritten its mission. Many articles in the International Speculator and The Casey Report have reported the strange growth in the loans they have made and explained that Bernanke has, for a long time, espoused unconventional actions to avert deflation and to expand the economy. So the charts below tell that story, and it is truly amazing. |
| Sold Short | | By Gennady Favel, 10 Nov 2008, 06:49 AM | | It's Monday Sept. 22. The week before, Lehman Brothers shocked the financial world by declaring bankruptcy and sent the markets into an epileptic siezure. But, for me and the hedge fund I work for, things couldn't be better. |
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