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Try investing in the West Bank, of all places

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This op-ed of mine was recently published in the Providence Journal:

For nearly 30 years, I’ve made my living identifying golden opportunities to invest in the bonds and other debt instruments of such developing world countries as El Salvador, Nigeria, Turkey and Zambia. I’ve never relied on sophisticated economic analyses or spread sheets; I’ve been a gut player relying on intelligence gathered by walking the streets of those countries and talking to bankers, businessmen, government officials and even taxi drivers.

If they had bonds to sell, which they don’t, at least not yet, I’d be lining up to buy bonds issued by the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA), which, though it doesn’t have its own currency, is the Palestinian central bank.

Why would I buy their bonds? There is something of a slow economic miracle unfolding in the West Bank…

Read the rest here.

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