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Kenya’s ‘Hustler Man’ Vs. Burkina Faso’s ‘Upright Man’

2nd April 2024 Going Postal 0

The differences in the performance of the “Hustler Man” in Kenya and the “Upright Man” in Burkina Faso is a function of genuine belief in transformational leadership, on the one hand, and mere self-serving populist [more…]

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Memo to Political Busybodies

6th March 2024 Going Postal 0

As long as cartels and cockroach ideas rule the roost, coffee farmers will continue to vote with their feet. Because farmers owe themselves an income, be it from bananas or avocados, it does not matter. [more…]

Economics

Fighting the Good Fight

21st February 2024 Going Postal 0

The UN is actively addressing the challenges of international tax cooperation in the digital era, highlighting the necessity to revamp existing rules. A recent UN report offers three options: a legally binding multilateral convention, a [more…]

20th Century

Looking Back at the SAPs Processes of the Early 1990s

7th February 2024 Going Postal 0

The Structural Adjustment Programmes of the early 1990s left ordinary Kenyans reeling under extreme economic hardship. Three decades later, SAPs are back, the Bretton Woods methods of inflicting economic pain on Kenyans unchanged. 18 January, [more…]

Capitalism

Sugar subsector reforms a Herculean task for Ruto

31st January 2024 Going Postal 0

It is commendable that the Ruto regime is taking steps to revive the sugar sector but President Ruto will require strong goodwill to succeed where his predecessors have failed. January 11, 2024 In recent years, [more…]

Business

Collapse won’t re-set Society, Part Two

30th November 2023 Going Postal 0

Part One is here. If bureaucracy is resilient, then trade is eternal. Far from being a recent development of modern technology, archeological evidence shows global trade predating the Iron Age. In the 3rd millennium B.C., [more…]

Economics

Government’s real role has limits

30th October 2023 Emile Woolf 0

President Ronald Reagan said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. We wonder whether he appreciated their full truth. The role of government [more…]

Economics

Gold for the people

19th October 2023 Going Postal 0

At the end of September, a very interesting story made the rounds in the media and caught my attention. Apparently, the US big box giant Costco added one rather surprising product to its range and it proved [more…]

Authoritarianism

The Dangers of a “Cashless” Economy

9th October 2023 Patrick Barron 0

What Is Legal Money? Before delving into the dangers of eliminating cash and mandating that all transactions be conducted by digital means, let us briefly discuss the legal aspects of money. In the United States, [more…]

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