Spent a useful half hour yesterday afternoon reading pieces on two remarkable human beings. The first, an in-depth look at 65-year old money management rock star Cathie Wood is on BizNews this morning- click here to read. The second, on brilliant 90 year old economist Thomas Sowell. It’s easy to be inspired by such remarkable people – rare birds sent to earth, perhaps, to challenge the rest of us to think differently.
- It’s a week since our partners at The Wall Street Journal joined the dots on evidence suggesting Covid-19 may be the result of a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That bombshell report has, inter alia, led to an official reverse in the White House’s position and a humiliating about-turn by Facebook, which previously censored anything other than China’s sanitised version. Now, even those who initially ridiculed the “leak” suggestion have re-assessed. Click here for latest by previously sceptical Washington Post.
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- The WSJ is too mature to rub anyone’s noses in it, but our partner does suggesting the media should learn some important lessons from its treatment of the Wuhan Lab Leak story. Click here for a superb opinion piece by WSJ editorial board member Holman W Jenkins. Maybe the “anything Trump said is wrong” lobby will re-assess the Hunter Biden expose’ which, like the Wuhan Lab Leak, was dismissed and ignored.
- Two investment-related pieces in The Wall Street Journal you are sure to find rewarding.
- More bad news for embattled Naspers/Prosus which has invested heavily in food delivery. Despite a boom during lockdown, the sector’s market leaders are still unable to trade profitably. Click here.
- On a happier note, a different approach by mining majors to the commodities price boom makes smaller players (think Kumba, Afrimat) rather appealing. Click here for the WSJ’s piece. And click here for my interview last week with Afrimat’s Andries v Heerden.
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