Alibaba and the Forty Dips

If the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of doing business in China is that you do not talk about China’s shortcomings, lest you risk poking the bear that is the Chinese Communist Party (‘CCP’). Jack Ma has spent the past 8 months learning this lesson, as Alibaba has …

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Alibaba and the Forty Dips

If the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of doing business in China is that you do not talk about China’s shortcomings, lest you risk poking the bear that is the Chinese Communist Party (‘CCP’). Jack Ma has spent the past 8 months learning this lesson, as Alibaba has …

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Alibaba and the Forty Dips

If the first rule of Fight Club is that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of doing business in China is that you do not talk about China’s shortcomings, lest you risk poking the bear that is the Chinese Communist Party (‘CCP’). Jack Ma has spent the past 8 months learning this lesson, as Alibaba has …

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Magic Markets Ep 2: China’s Electrical Storm

Mohammed Nalla is one of the most highly respected macroeconomic market analysts to emerge from South Africa. He’s launched Moe-Knows, a macroeconomics knowledge platform. Now living in Canada, he layers a global perspective on top of his emerging markets expertise. Together, The Finance Ghost and Moe-Knows have multiple years of experience across practically every asset class. In Magic Markets, we unpack market …

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