@KK,
You strike me as a being a very well informed gentleman.
Where do you get the time to read all this stuff?(You surely must be a batchelor)
I am also curious to know what you do for a living?

@ Chaka and Phaoro.

Thank you for your kind sentiments. Standing on the shoulders of investing greats such as Warren Buffet, Jim Sinclair, Martin Armstrong, Monty Guild, Jim Rogers, Marc Faber etc, one is able to have a bird's eye view of the forest as a opposed to individual trees when on the ground level. As with all other skill sets, time and effort are directly proportional to mastery.

I am an entrepreneur and will be the luckiest man south of the Equator to marry a woman of substance.

If you have additional questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Every cloud has a silver lining. It took a drought spell to cut down the tea supply glut in the market. Farmers now have a gleam in their eye.

"2009 is a year that many investors would prefer to forget after the Nairobi Stock Exchange plunged to a three- year low. But the year was not so gloomy for the agricultural segment which produced the top three best-performing stocks in terms of capital gains despite its counter being the least active at the bourse.

The sector has traditionally been a shunned by investors due to the volatility inherent in its stocks which rely on weather, an increasingly unpredictable phenomenon following decades of environmental degradation by human activities...."

Read more:

http://www.businessdaily...36/-/6a4801/-/index.html

Excellent previous post (149) btw. I had no idea the Central Banks had been dumping gold prior to 2008 and indeed many of the gold experts predict a rally. I’ll admit I don’t much about gold but I’d like to know what cbk does in with its gold reserves. Do you know? What’s it function in the Kenyan context?

One shouldn’t support a one world currency until the fiat currency is changed, but, I also used to remember many of the historians citing the ways in which gold could be manipulated. I had read the story about the French cashing in their gold for dollars in the 70s (post 150) and it sounds like it could happen again (considering what you said about the increase in money supply and gold reserves as well as the current banking system).

The gold debate has also been a big one amongst the group of economists/financial experts who belong to the Austrian school and some see it as one of the most viable options in reforming the monetary system. One of the experts I’m currently following is John Kutyn and he’s also advocate for a gold-based currency:

http://www.gold-eagle.co...als_08/kutyn082509.html

I had read a book called “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by John Perkins and he gave an interesting perspective of the ‘petroscam’ that accelerated the dollar role as the reserve currency and may give us. Also stumbled onto a blogger who had an interesting view:

http://macromarketmusing.../10/more-on-dollar.html

karanjakinuthia. I appreciate the effort you put into your posts and pray that you’re encouraged by the rest of us to continue sharing your knowledge.

Strategies of China's reform and opening to the world by the "great designer" Deng Xiaoping and Ye Jianying in 1976 are steadily bearing fruit with the "Middle Kingdom" overtaking Germany as the world's largest exporter.

"China has had a few big moments along the way — becoming the world’s biggest holder of US government debt, building up the world’s biggest pool of foreign reserves and boasting the world’s biggest bank by some measures.

And now, the country’s banks are climbing..."

Read more:

http://ftalphaville.ft.c...anks-take-on-the-world/