[Reflecting on the recent tumult of Trump’s visit to Davos, I have concluded that global activism is in a state of deep malaise. Trumpism has exposed its over-reliance on discourse management. As discourses splinter at the seams, salvation lies in a new mode of conversation in which we are comfortable,...

The Commissioned masterpiece Quite a few people have sent me a report seemingly commissioned by the GoldBod and written by three economists, some with very strong ties to government institutions in the finance and economic sectors. One author, for instance, has a longtime association with the Monetary Policy Committee of...

2. They have earned the right to be triumphant: some analysts say that the Cedi enjoyed its best performance in over 30 years. 3. Readers of this site know that some of us believe that the Cedi became overvalued due to over-interference by the BoG, but that is an entirely...

Public policy advocacy is a constant wrestle between precision/rigour and clarity. I thought my recent piece on the GoldBod losses saga was comprehensive, and therefore convenient. But even finance-steeped friends reached out to advise that I need to get more focused. Three key questions, in their view, are confusing people,...

Ahead of the holidays, I posted on Twitter (X) about the IMF’s disclosure that Ghana’s state-owned monopoly gold exporter and trader, GoldBod, has made trading losses of about $214 million. That act prompted the CEO of GoldBod to respond, and in a most emphatic and categorical manner. He disputes every...

As we wrap up programming on this site for the holiday break, I thought I should give readers a parting shot from the katanomics stable. And who best to use than Aliko Dangote, the richest Black billionaire in the world, and arguably the most consequential industrialist Africa has produced since...

Timeline 2. He is ultimately responsible for negotiating a lease agreement for the country’s first lithium mine with Barari DV, the local entity of Atlantic Lithium Limited. The Minerals Commission basically works at his behest. 3. He is also responsible for shepherding the negotiated lithium agreement through Parliament. As well...

Yesterday, I read the “exposure draft” of the Bank of Ghana’s Guideline for the Regulation and Supervision of Non-Interest Banking. The first thing that struck me is that the central bank’s strategic decision to rebrand “Islamic Banking” as “Non-Interest Banking” (NIB), while understandable as a bid to avoid the kind...

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) is prosecuting former senior officials of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), one of the big government agencies in Ghana’s energy sector. The OSP alleges that the former NPA Executives created an extortion racket that netted them more than $25 million in corrupt funds....

The African Union has thrown its weight behind a projection system for rendering maps that shows Africa’s true size better than the much more popular Mercator system. Most educated people know that popular world maps don’t do justice to the sheer humongousness of the African continent. I personally learnt about...