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How to work out your interest yourself – and how the banks did it in the old days…

11th February 2023 Going Postal 0

Have you ever wondered how the bank worked out how much interest to pay on your savings account, or charge you on your mortgage? I had a mortgage with a building society some years ago, [more…]

Business

The death of the middle class is the death of civil society

9th February 2023 Going Postal 0

The blame game As we know from every crisis in human history, and especially the more recent ones, the most important item on any politician’s agenda is to find someone else to blame for it. [more…]

America

Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Four

6th February 2023 Going Postal 0

One of Say’s Laws holds that “we produce to consume”. This is certainly the underlying theme of the Industrial Revolution with its accompanying exponential growth in production of technology, communication, and energy utilization. While private [more…]

Business

The death of the middle class is the death of civil society

2nd February 2023 Going Postal 0

The middle class in the West has been shrinking for years, but after the covid crisis and especially after the inflation explosion, whatever was left of it is now basically under threat of extinction. This [more…]

21st Century

Kenya Election Context

31st January 2023 Going Postal 0

Some more on the background context of how Kenya got to where it currently is. The presidential contest election was effectively a two-horse race between Deputy President William Ruto and veteran politician Raila Odinga. Neither [more…]

Emile Woolf, Going Postal
Economics

Growth is the antidote to stagnation – but it requires knowledge and leadership

30th January 2023 Emile Woolf 0

By now even Treasury officials and central banks recognise that their practice of Quantitative Easing has run its course. In its contemporary form, QE began a dozen years ago as a temporary emergency measure enacted [more…]

Business

Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Three

30th January 2023 Going Postal 0

Banking came up with its own methods of inflating the supply of legal tender-fiat money, fractional reserve lending. A bank comes to know (a version of the dispersal of knowledge of the market) how much [more…]

21st Century

Danger to Kenya’s Democracy

24th January 2023 Going Postal 0

21 August 2022 Westerners, the outgoing president (Uhuru Kenyatta), and former opposition leader (Raila Odinga) wish to force a barmy government in which the pursuit of citizen wellbeing is halted in favour of pursuing undefined [more…]

Business

Economic Evolution: Darwin’s Idiot Speaks, Part Two

23rd January 2023 Going Postal 0

Prior to written documents being exchanged as representations of mutually agreed perceived value, the concept of money arose amongst multiple trading groups. This may have taken place prior to the credit/debit system as a substitute [more…]

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