Index

Abu Dhabi

Ackman, Bill

Adam Smith (George Goodman)

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century. (Dunn)

Africa. See also South Africa; Zambia; Zimbabwe (Zim)

cell phones

Chinese investments in

Chinese presence in

commodities

electrical generating capacity

gold discoveries

investment opportunities

political risks

power outages

Africa Opportunity Fund

Africa Rising (Mahajan)

Africa's Power Infrastructure (World Bank)

African Rainbow Metals (AGM)

Agcapita

AGCO

Agrium

Agtmael, Antoine van

Airbus

Al-Katib, Murad

Alliance Grain Traders (AGT)

Al-Suwadi, Faisal

Ambani, Mukesh

American Home Real Estate

Angkor ruins

AngloGold

A.O. Smith

Arab wealth funds

Araújo, Maria Consuelo

Arbel

Argentina

agricultural development

land development

potential investments in

real estate

Arkin, William

Ashcroft, Mark

Asia

dairy consumption

exports vs. internal consumption

food production

Asia Times

Asian consumers

Asian Godfathers (Studwell)

Asset seizure

Assets under managment (AUM)

Assiniboia Capital

Australia

coal exports

currency strength

dairy operations

early settlement

economic growth

investment opportunities

iron ore exports

LNG boom

resources of

uranium reserves

wheat exports

Australian Small-Cap Investigator

AutoNation

Aviation and aircraft

Azerbaijan

B2Gold

Båge, Lennart

Bakken shale

carbon dioxide injection

oil boom

owners of

Balakrishnan, Ajit

Banks

Bannister, Barry

Banpu Coal

Barnett, Doug

Batista, Joesley

Battuta, Ibn

Bear Lake, Idaho

Beating the Street (Lynch)

Beech, Keyes

Beer

Bell, Gavin

Belt, Thomas

Bernal-Correa, Andrés

Beuret, Michel

Big Mac Index

Biofuels

Bird, Isabella Lucy

Black ownership of business

Blacks, credit access

Blue Highways (Least-Heat Moon)

BNDES (development bank)

Boeing

Bolsa de Valores de Colombia

Bonner, Bill

Booms and busts

Bowles, Paul

Bowman, Joel

Brasil Foods

Brazil

affluence

agricultural development

Caipirinhas crisis

coal requirements

coking coal imports

consumer credit boom

crops

currency

dairy industry

development bank

farm ownership rights

fertilizer consumption of

Florianopolis

gold reserves

gold rushes

inflation rate

land ownership

meat production

metallurgical coal imports

middle class

oil resources

opportunities in

renationalization

Sao Paulo

soils

Brazil on the Rise (Rohter)

Bregman, Steve

Brinkley, Joel

Brookfield Asset Management

Brown, Lester

Burj Khalifa

Burman, Anand

Cairn India

Cairn Lifts India's Energy Profile (Leahy)

Callahan, Jonathan

Cambodia

agricultural potential

agriculture

aquaculture

Asian investments in

cell phones

China investment in

economic growth

economic potential

electric power development

food processing/storage

hydroelectric power

infrastructure projects

Phnom Penh

political risks

railways

standard of living

stock exchange

transportation projects

undeveloped resources

workforce

Cambodia's Curse (Brinkley)

Cameron, Roderick

Campo Grande

Canacal Energy

Canada. See also Saskatchewan

government finances

investment opportunities

resources of

Canada Natural Resources

Canadian Business

Canals

Bangkok

Colombia canal

Erie Canal

Panama Canal

Suez Canal

Canola

Car ownership

China

Colombia

India

Phnom Penh

Carbon sequestration

Carrefour

Casey, Doug

Cato Institute

Cell phones

Celtel

Cementos Argos

Central Asia

Cerrado

Chart Industries

Chavez, Hugo

Chaze, Aaron

Chevron

Child labor

China

air pollution

bank lending

Beijing development

Beijing population

bubbles

car ownership

China Model of politics

clean water

coking coal imports

consumer pressure

corporate fraud

economic development

economy size

energy demand

engineering feats

exports vs. internal consumption

farmland investments

fertilizer consumption of

food imports

food production

forecasts regarding

German technology

gold reserves

high-speed rail

historical impact of

Hong Kong

investment dollar flow

investment opportunities

investments in Africa

manufacturing capabilities

metallurgical coal imports

methanol

middle class

as military power

natural gas imports

nuclear power production

oil imports

per capita income

petrochemical industry

power outages

presence in Africa

renminbi valuation

S-Curves in

soil erosion

stimulus plan

water pollution

water requirements

wealth accumulation

China Marine Food

China Safari (Beuret and Michel)

China Shakes the World (Kynge)

China's Great Train

Chovanec, Patrick

Churchill, Winston

City of Gold (Krane)

Clayton, Douglas

Cline Mining

Cluff, Algy

Cluff Gold

Coal. See also Metallurgical coal (met coal/coking coal)

Banpu Coal

coal development

coal exports

coal prices

coal requirements

coal resources

coal to China

steam coal vs. metallurgical coal

Coal & Energy Price Report

Coal prices

Coburn, Forrest

Colombia

car ownership

coal to China

coffee production

Colombia canal

crime

forestry

gold mining projects

gold production

illegal mining

infrastructure

investment opportunities

Keiretsu

middle class

mountains

oil exploration

oil reserves

opportunities in

ownership concentration

Pacific Rubiales

per capita income

population

roads

savings and loans

security issues

sovereign debt

stock selection

violence

Community outreach

The Conquest of Brazil (Nash)

Cook, James

Cook Inlet

Cooper, Peter

Copies vs. originals

Copper production

Córdoba, Francisco Hernández de

“The Covert Commander-un-Chief” (Ignatius)

Covidien

Credit default swap rates

Credit vs. cash economics

Crop processing

Crow, Carl

Currencies

Dabur

Daniels, Francis

Dayal, Ajit

DeMarco, Eric

Denbury Resources

Desalination

Dick Cavett Show

Diggers, Hatters & Whores (Eldred-Grigg)

Djandji, Marc

Dooley, Cal

Dow Chemical

Du Plessis, Prieur

Dubai

business environment

construction

containerization

debt crisis

desalination

Dragon Mart

electrical power

future of

growth of

importance of

real estate boom

real estate bubble

trade

Duggal, Sunil

Dunn, Ross

Duque, Juan Vasquez

Dutch disease

Dyson, Freeman

“Ease of doing business survey” (World Bank)

Ecclestone, Christopher

Ecopetrol

Edelheit, Aaron

Eldred-Grigg, Stevan

Electricity

electric power development

electrical generating capacity

electrical supply

General Electric

hydroelectric power

S-Curves

shale gas vs. wind farms

The Elephant and the Dragon (Meredith)

Emerging markets

Emerging Markets Century (Agtmael)

Emsley, Doug

“The End of Emerging Markets,” 2

Energy politics

Engines That Move Markets (Nairn)

Entrepreneur/owners

Erie Canal

Ethanol

Europe natural gas needs

Exito

Fabricato

Farquhar, Brad

Fertilizer

Financial Times

Findlay, Ronald

Flatt, Bruce

Flavin, Martin

Florida housing

Following the Equator (Twain)

Food bubbles

Food imports and exports

Food supply. See also Saskatchewan

agricultural profits

biofuels

climate change

crop processing

farmland investments

food production

grains

investing in

pulses

soil depletion

topsoil crisis

Foreign Affairs

400 Million Customers (Crow)

French, Paul

Frontline program

The Fruit Palace (Nicholl)

Fry, Eric

Funk, McKenzie

Fuqi Intl.

Gafisa (GFA)

Gaither, William

Gamba, Charles

Gas pipelines

GCC Trade and Investment Flows (The Economist)

General Electric

The Gentleman in the Parlour (Maugham)

“The Geographical Pivot of History” (Mackinder)

Global Competiveness rankings

Global Resources Fund

Gold mining projects

Gold One

Gold rushes

Grains

Gran Colombia

Grant, John

Grantham, Jeremy

Grant's Interest Rate Observer (Stillwell)

Grupo InterBolsa

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Hanoi

Harrison, George

Hayton, Bill

Heinberg, Richard

Hill, James J.

Holmes, Frank

Hospitals

Hotel shortages

Housing

affordability

buy-rent strategy

Florida housing

India

investment opportunities

Mongolia

Sao Paulo

United States

How to Feed the World in 2050 (FAO)

Howe, E.W.

Hyflux

Hypermarket

Iacono, Serafino

IBM

Ibrahim, Mo

In Search of South Africa (Morton)

In Spite of the Gods (Luce)

India

biofuels

car ownership

coal resources

coking coal imports

corruption

crop commodity prices

energy needs

fertilizer consumption of

food imports

gold holdings

Goldman Sachs prediction

historical impact of

housing

Hyderabad

infrastructure projects

investing in

investment opportunities

Malabar Coast

metallurgical coal imports

Mumbai

oil demand

oil resources

outsourcing to

pollution

power outages

property companies

Tata Group

transportation infrastructure

water requirements

windpower

India: An Investor's Guide to the Next Economic Superpower (Chaze)

Indonesia

per capita income

population

Indorama Ventures (IVL)

Intellectual property

vs. natural resources

sectors

International Labor Organization

Internet

Investment Biker (Rogers)

Investment criteria

Investor travelogues

Iran

It's a Wonderful Life (movie)

James, Kynge

JBS-Fribol

Jimmy Stewart profile

Kaplan, Robert

Karber, Phil

Kaylan, Melak

Kazakhstan

economic growth

oil and gas reserves

oil fields

uranium reserves

Keating, Charles

Keay, John

Kerr-McGhee

Kindleberger, Charles

Klarman, Seth

Knapp. Robert

Knoll, Kerry

Krane, Jim

Krato Defense & Security Solutions

Kraus, Eric

Krotov, Anton

Kupperman, Harris

Kuwait

Kuznets, Simon

Kynge, James

Kyrgyzstan

La-Cira Infantas (oil field)

Latin American economies

Leahy, Joe

Least-Heat Moon, William

Lefèvre, Edward

Legumex Walker Inc. (LWI)

Leopard Capital

Lewis, Scott

Licensing vs. production

Lipper awards

Live and Invest Overseas

Long-term vs. short-term focus

Luce, Edward

Lukoil

Lum, Olivia

Lustgarten, Abrahm

Lynch, Peter

Mackinder, Halford John

Mackintosh-Smith, Tim

Mad About the Mekong (Keay)

Maddison, Angus

Mahajan, Vijay

The Man Who Walked Across the World (Mackintosh-Smith)

Margin of Safety (Klarman)

Market liquidity

Marriott, Edward

Marshall, Paul

Mathiessen, Peter

Mato Grasso do Sul

Maugham, Somerset

McCourt, Edward

McDonald, Ian

McEwen, Rob

McGregor, James

McKinley Capital Partners

Meatpacking

Medoro

Mekong River

Mello, Marcio

MENA (Middle East and North Africa)

Mendelbrot, Benoit

Meredith, Robyn

Metallurgical coal (met coal/coking coal)

imports and exports

New Elk Mine

resources

vs. steam coal

Methanex

Methanol

Meyer. Michael

Michel, Serge

The Middle East in the World Economy (Owen)

MILA (Integrated Latin American Market)

Minas Gerais

Mining sector

Minster, Leonard

Mitchell, Malone

Mittal, Lawrence

Mobius, Mark

Mongolia

copper resources

economic growth

gold resources

housing

insurance

metallurgical coal resources

mining potential

oil resources

political freedom

potential investments in

uranium reserves

Mongolia Growth Group (MGG)

Monsanto

Monsoon Seas (Villiers)

Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE Index

Morocco

Morris, Jan

Mortgages

Morton, Henry

Motsepe, Patrice

Mouhout, Henri

Mozambique

MSCI Thailand Index Fund

Mugabe, Robert

Murderers in Mausoleums (Tayler)

My Car in Managua (Colburn)

Nairn, Alasdair

Namibia

Nash, Roy

National Geographic Adventure

National Geographic Traveler

National security

Nationalization

Natural gas

gas pipelines

gas-to-liquids plant

liquefied natural gas (LNG)

natural gas imports

natural gas needs

natural gas reserves

natural gas resources

oil and gas reserves

oil and gas resources

oil and gas revenues

for power generation

shale gas vs. wind farms

The Naturalist in Nicaragua (Belt)

The New Silk Road (Simpfendorfer)

New York Times

New Zealand

agricultural development

balance sheet recession

carbon hysteria

coal development

coal resources

dairy farming

farming

geothermal power

gold mining

investment opportunities

oil demand

oil resources

precious metals

quantitative easing

sheep

uranium

Nicaragua

civil war

cost of living

earthquakes and volcanoes

energy sources

geothermal power

gold mines

Granada

hydroelectric power

investment opportunities

León

money printing

nationalization

potential

Nicaragua (Walker)

Nicholl, Charles

Nigeria

North Korea

Nuclear power production

Obama, Barak

Oil demand

Oil exploration

Old Town Island

One Billion Customers. (McGregor)

One up on Wall Street (Lynch)

Opportunity Dubai (Cooper)

Orient Paper

Ormet

O'Rourke, Kevin H.

Ortega, Daniel

Owen, Roger

Owens-Illinois

Owner-operator model (OOs)

Pacific Rubiales

Panama Canal

Paris Hills, Idaho

Passport to Profits (Mobius)

Paulse, Haymish

Paulson, John

Petrobras

Phillips, Peter

Phosphate

Piccone, James

Pilgrim's Pride

Plastics

Platinum group metals (PGMs)

Platinum supply and demand

Polo, Marco

Polynesians

Pomfret, John

Potash

PotashCorp

Powell, Alexander

Power and Plenty (Findlay and O'Rourke)

Precious metals

Priest, Diana

Prudhoe Bay

Purchasing power parity (PPP)

Qatar

LNG exports

natural gas reserves

natural gas resources

Qinghai-Tibet railway

Raban, Jonathan

Raipal, Amit

Rajasthan project

Rare earths

Real estate

Recycling

Reeves, W. Pember

Refineries

Reganold, John

Reibey, Mary

Renewable energy sources

Research and development

Resolute

Resolution Energy

Reuters

Rhodes, Cecil

Riches Among the Ruins (Smith)

Ridley, Matt

Rio Tinto

Robertson, Julian

Rogers, Jim

Rohter, Larry

Roscoe, Renato

Rosneft

Rothschild, Jacob

Rule, Rick

Russia

bribes

food production

historical impact of

mining sector

natural gas resources

oil resources

PGM resources

population reduction

potential investments in

remilitarization of

resources of

and Turkmen gas reserves

Sala, George Augustus

Sanchez, Jhon Correa

Sand Ridge Energy

Sandanistas

Saskatchewan

farming costs

land prices

politics

Saskatchewan (McCourt)

Sasol

Saudi Arabia

Savage Shore (Marriott)

Sayce, Kris

Schmidt, Mayo

S-Curves

cars

in China

electricity

oil

steel

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Selmo oil field

Service sectors

SET Index

Seth, Harsh

Seth, Jayesh

Seven Percent Club

The Shale Gas Rock (Ridley)

Shaplen, Robert

Shiels, Stompie

Shoprite

Shukla, Rajesh

Sierra, Ricardo Andres

Silk Road

Simpfendorfer, Ben

Simplot

Singapore

Sino-Forest

Smith, Roger

The Snow Leopard (Mathiessen)

Solomon, Steve

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Bell)

Sonatel

Soros, George

South Africa

Cape Town history

corruption

Johannesburg

platinum supply and demand

refineries

Southeast Asia. See also Cambodia; Thailand; Vietnam

Southeast Asian investment opportunities

Sovereign wealth funds

Sprott, Eric

Stahl, Murray

Starbucks

Star-Times

Stevenson, Seth

Stillwell, Joe

Stonegate Agricom

Stotz, Andrew

Stotz Stocks

Studwell, Joseph

Subramanian, Arvind

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Suez Canal

Sun Yat-sen

Supercycles

Supertrends (Tvede)

Sutton, Nicholas

Sweatshops

Swift

Sydney (Morris)

Syria

Tablemac

Tajikistan

Takeovers

Tata Steel

Tayler, Jeffrey

Tech boom

Television

Tequila Crisis

Thai Focused Equity Fund

Thailand

Bangkok canals

Bangkok floods

Bangkok growth

business transparency

colonialization

financial condition

guru investor in

investment opportunities

offshore production by

political risks

stock exchange

The Economic Times

The Economist

The Energy Report

The Financial Times

The National

The Times of India

The Wall Street Journal

Thrift conversions

Thrifts

Through the Looking Glass (French)

Thubron, Colin

Time of the Mango Flowers (Cameron)

Tinseth, Randy

Titanium Metals (TIE)

Tonle Sap Lake

Top Secret America (Frontline)

Trade history

Trans-Atlantic Petroleum

Transparency International annual corruption index

Transportation projects

Travels with a Tangerine (Mackintosh-Smith)

Troubled economies, investments in

Turkey

consumer consumption

investment encouragement

natural gas resources

oil development

oil resources

potential investments in

workforce

Turkmenistan

Turner Investment Partners

A Turning the Wheel (Shaplen)

Tvede, Lars

Twain, Mark

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates. See also Abu Dhabi; Dubai

dollar denomination

electrical supply

food imports

Ibn Battuta

infrastructure projects

LNG imports

municipal services

needs of

water supply

United States. See also National security

agricultural profits

Alaskan natural gas resources

Alaskan oil and gas revenues

aviation and aircraft

defense spending

export infrastructure

fertilizer consumption of

gas-to-liquids plant in

government spending

grain exports

housing

imports vs. exports

interstate highway system

investment opportunities

LNG exports

manufacturing capabilities

money printing

nation of builders

phosphate

phosphate deposits

quality of life

Rocky Mountain oil and gas resources

rural areas

rural development

service sector

travel in

Uranium mania

Uranium producers

Uranium reserves

Urban dwellers

Urea

U.S. Global Investors (GROW)

U.S. Manufacturing (Turner Investment Partners)

U.S.-listed China-based stocks

Uzbekistan

Vale

Vencedor

Vieira, Felipe Hoyos

Vietnam. See also Hanoi

agricultural storage

capitalism

consumers

development patterns

economy and debt

gold consumption

government control of business

Japan postwar conditions

rice

social and political change

state-owned-enterprises (SOEs)

stock market

workforce

Vietnam: Rising Dragon (Hayton)

Viettel

Villiers, Alan

Viterra

Volker, Jim

Von Braun, Joachim

Walker, Thomas

Wal-Mart

Walton, Sam

Water (Solomon)

Water filtration products

Water wealth

Western Sahara phosphate exports

Whirlpool

Whiting Petroleum

Whitman, Martin

Wilson, Floyd

Wind farms vs. shale gas

Woodside Petroleum

World economy growth

World Nuclear Association

Yukos

Zambia

Zee Network

Zhang Lijun

Zillow

Zimbabwe (Zim)

Zimplats