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  • Credit Crunch: Your Take

    Posted: April 3, 2008, 8:22 pm
    Billionaire financier George Soros claims that the economic downturn in the US is the worst since the Great Depression. Now, most experts believe that this is a global phenomenon and that the economic slow down will get worse and could be with us through to late 2009.

    What impact, though, will all this will have down at the personal level. April, the start of a new tax year here in the UK, finds many consumers with little disposable income. Water bills, TV licences, Council Tax and Vehicle tax all go up this month. The cost of basic grocery items has been rising steadily with ever increasing fuel costs. It should come as no surprise then that the country has gone into a borrowing frenzy.

    Read more from here.

  • Cabinet woes in Kenya

    Posted: April 3, 2008, 8:18 pm
    Kenyans wait expectantly for the announcement of the coalition cabinet by President Kibaki. This follows the enactment by parliament of fresh legislation that paved the way for the Grand Coalition government and ‘legalised' the positions of Prime Minister and two deputies.

    In a previous article, I explored the pact that brought forward the coalition deal, and the legislation that followed. I criticised the legislation as flawed and permissive. It was filled with such ambiguities that made certain that mischievous translation and misunderstanding as we had sought to avoid would surely follow. In reactions by readers on this site, those of us who were skeptical of the details in the agreement were accused of a lack of goodwill, and it was alleged that such criticism constituted part of a plot by the PNU to cheat the ODM out of what belonged to it by right of the signed document. That was not the intention then, and neither is it now. However, I remain persuaded that the weaknesses in the agreement means it will have a very short life span and we should be thankful if it lasts us to the end of this year.

    Read more from Kamale T here.

  • Cartoon: IPO of my eye

    Posted: April 3, 2008, 4:33 am
    The long awaited Safaricom offer-for-sale, IPO by us, is finally here, and many, most Kenyans are very excited for it. Ready to take a bite? What though to make of this Mobitelea business?

    Click here for Patrick Gathara's cartoon.

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