Tycoons under dictatorships have made a Faustian bargain that fills their wallets yet drains their soul. The political tightrope a tycoon must walk requires the utmost of skill and savvy not only to continue to reap the enormous financial rewards but also to literally stay alive

Dictatorships are clumsy at convincingly looking good wearing the high-fashion garb of humanitarian efforts. However Cuba is coming off as a GQ model with their impressively generous exports of doctors to West Africa to battle the Ebola crisis. How politically effective will this humanitarian aid be with respect to its rapprochement with the US?

The greater danger should Ebola manifest in the US is the possibility of violence against African immigrants who will be unjustly targeted as scapegoats. Because of the deadly nature of the virus, over-reaction by an American citizenry living in a comfortable bubble where there are no lethal communicable diseases, may be more deadly than Ebola itself.