to a time when Imperial China looked to raise funds from Europe (interestingly, this loan was arranged by the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation - HSBC). Next to this is the Compagnie Impériale des Chemins de Fer Éthiopiens, founded in France in 1894 under a royal charter from Emperor Menelek II to build and operate a railway across Ethiopia. The firm failed when political discord and a lack of investment halted construction. In 2010 China started construction on Ethiopia's new rail system.

Though often searching for a specific company share, the serendipitous find of an evocative name or vignette can also be enough to attract Locke’s attention.Grand Marais is a quiet Minnesota town on the Lake Superior coast. Seth Jeffs is the brother of notorious cult leader Warren Jeffs, and the leader of his own secretive sect. The only thing separating them is a dispute over local wetlands.

Seth Jeffs was a prominent figure in the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints, a polygamist sex cult that married off underage girls to adult men. After leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison for crimes including raping his 12-year-old “wife,” Seth Jeffs and other FLDS members flitted from state to state establishing new religious compounds and dodging legal action. Now Seth Jeffs is build a new compound in Grand Marais, all while facing a lawsuit from a woman who says he and the