Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Confusion or Desperation - or Both

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The Business Daily has an interesting story on the proposed increase in taxes on bank charges . The author of the story, Brian Ngugi, is my...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Bad Ideas Are Cockroaches!

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Thanks to Paul Krugman, Economics Nobel Laureate, I know that bad ideas are like cockroaches: no matter how many times you flush them down t...
Monday, 10 September 2018

Feigned Thought Leadership

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" Eyes on the shilling as Sh152 billion IMF cushion ends  ". This is how the Business Daily   screamed today (see picture). T...
Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Nudging Economic Normalcy - "The Animal is Innocent" (A Bit Techical)

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I have just finished reading David Pilling's interesting new book (2018) titled 'T he Growth Delusion - The Wealth and Well-Being of...
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Wednesday, 27 June 2018

When Even Reading a Paragraph is Asking Too Much from A Reporter

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Recently the Oxford Business Group (OBG) published its inaugural Business Barometer: Kenya CEO Survey 2018 ( see report here ). I attended t...
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Thursday, 1 February 2018

Business Daily Editorial Pages - a Platform for Intellectual Pretence

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I don't want to make any assumptions regarding what music the editors of the Business Daily love to  listen to. That is why I want to t...
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Tuesday, 30 January 2018

It's "OK" Until Minsky Comes Calling!

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There is a strange story in today's Business Daily to the effect that " experts back Treasury's plan to pay debt using Eurobon...