#Gertler

Dan Gertler bought royalties to ERG's copper-cobalt Metalkol tailings in 2017 from Gecamines. We're just finding out now. Gertler says he paid $55m+$28m debt. Gecamines says nothing. ERG says they'll
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Astonishing to see sanctions against #DanGertler eased in the last days in office of #DonaldTrump. The reversal came as a result of years of lobbying by Alain Dershowitz, who helped
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Businessman #DanGertler just announced his new #YaBiso scheme to supposedly share #DRC’s mineral wealth with #Congo’s people.See this THREAD revealing what a US court said about #Gertler and decide for
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1. This project was the work of many people over the course of a year, including some who took huge risks and sacrificed a lot. Several were inspired in part by @LUMUMBAJj
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Switzerland-based Glencore Plc mines nickel, copper, zinc and thermal coal in Canada and has partnerships worth billions of dollars with Canada's largest pension plans. They are also the investor of
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The Democratic Republic of Congo as suffered under authoritarian rule of Joseph Kabila, but a $9.5 million lobbying campaign by Mer Security and Communication Systems helped Kabila gain support of
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Seeing that Brian Molefe mentioned Glencore’s role at Eskom during his fascinating story telling at the #StateCaptureCommission, I thought we should have a brief history lesson on the most corrupt
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A US judge today sentenced a subsidiary of New York hedge fund Och-Ziff for #corruption in #DRC. Court documents reveal a lot about who was responsible. Though not charged, businessman
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Scott Sumner coins a fun term the “Princeton School of Macro” for the work in monetary economics at Princeton from the mid 1990’s to mid 2005 in this podcast https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/macromusings/id/17491958
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