General • 17 Sep 2018 Is Menzgold a Financial Innovator? When the Menzgold issues started to garner public traction, not many people thought it was interesting enough to spend any time analysing them. A few of us, on the other hand, found the whole affair mesmerising. In our various comments on the subject, we warned against two extremes: Overbearing regulations... read more
General • 5 Sep 2018 Ghana’s “Bauxite Barter Deal” & the Billion-Dollar Confusion There are reports in the Ghanaian press that the IMF has referred Ghana’s recently ratified Master Project Support Agreement with Sinohydro Corporation of China to its legal department for advice on whether what the Ghanaian government is calling a “barter agreement” should instead be classified as a loan. Intrusive as... read more
