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*Xi Jinping stoically looks at Wang Huning* “There’s gotta be a catch here right.” *Wang Huning, stern faced, curtly shakes his head a little*

Runway of Tariffs Made in a single day using: Images – GPT-4o Image Gen Video – Luma AI Global trade has never looked this good.

The average age of a country is a good summary of its savings position and wealth. On the right is how the US average age has changed over time ..the US civil war was when the US average age was 19.

Greenery is inherently progressive-coded so in this way you can trick people by covering your city in it. You don’t even have to have that great of a Human Rights record just plant trees everywhere people will handwave it away. Lee Kuan Yew on the importance of Singapore’s Trees:

Central banks are the most powerful economic institutions in Africa. They are endowed with great economists earning decent wages. Why can’t they fight inflation and create the optimal conditions for economic transformation? My report for ACET. tinyurl.com/bddcpxtd. Free access

Libertarianism is just “I don’t know what 2nd order consequences are” which is why most people grow out of it by senior year of high school.

Our electrification strategy is run by foreigners in the development sector - full of non engineers whose only vision for Kenya's electricity is "climate friendly". No other metric. That's what exists in place of asking Kenyan engineers what we should do to electrify.

And so it begins(?)

A poignant reminder - you can't have incentives to improve infrastructure, ease of business, provide some level of technocracy (data drive policy) if you defend "soft autarky" to the death.

A dual highway with multiple lanes from Nairobi to Kisumu is of more economic benefit than and a better project than SGR to Kisumu. The SGR project is/was an economic ghost project. It hasn’t benefited kenya in anyway while adding unnecessary loan burden on Kenyans.

No non-resource-rich country has become high-income without urbanization* 🌆🌆 *shamelessly stealing the famous Energy for Growth Hub energy chart

Straight talk on African elites’ complacency: the case of Kenya: africanistperspective.com/p/straight-tal…

Economics is not a (hard) science, it's not free of ideology, and it's not free of moral judgements. There is no such thing as 'objective' economics.

The Moses series by Barbara Kimenye. Once you started with this series, you did not stop until you finished all the books.

This is a map of China during its warlord era (1916 - 1928). There were all sorts of crazy warlords then - like the "Dogmeat General" and the "Christian General" (who "baptized" his troops with a fire hose). When societies experience chaos for extended periods, order tends to be

The last nuclear reactor in Taiwan powers down tomorrow. This just exemplifies everything that went wrong with Taiwan. The KMT were oppressive authoritarians, but they had brilliant technocrats like Sun yun-suan and KT Lee. That’s why in the 80s while Taiwan was literally the

What does the rise and decline of STEM enrollment in Kenyan universities tell us about the Kenyan economy? africanistperspective.com/p/what-does-th…

Lol the kids are now making LKY edits that go hard as the man himself. Lee: “never fear…” Captions: locking up communists without a trial, air conditioning, beating criminals with a cane. Free-est markets in the world…enforced racial harmony💀 I’m not going to write a book.

The passage below pretty much sums up the current state of play. Great article once again by Ken Opalo

Economics is fundamentally political. Economics is shaped by ideologies, human values, competing interests, social norms, and political priorities. Be sceptical of economists who tell you that their field free from politics.