I'm a businessman, not a superman (like @VVS) as ya'll whine about a weak KES, my wealth has appreciated 10%+ technically.

My friend, it is easy to say mugabe, moi, kenyatta, museveni are 'patriots' when you benefit from their policies but 99% of Kenyans, Ugandans, Zimbabweans paid the price for economic rape...

Museveni - I looked up to him. No more, after he pushed his prez for life agenda.

I am closely watching Ian Khama & Paul Kagame. I hope they stay true to not becoming the typical corrupt african strongman.

The USD is a global reserve ccy. U should be ashamed @ ur statements.

I'm loving it, keep calling the US worthless remember just coz you call someone a name, does not necessarily mean they are that. The US still has the greatest economy, bar none. China may be a contender, but I doubt the real money holders will be willing to shift their reserves from the mighty dollar to the unpredictable yen. Then when people start inferring Russia and India, I stop listening, Russia lost the Cold war and has been bitter since. India, really????? CDE remember pride comes before a fall, an S&P downgrade may actually be good news, I still maintain that interest rates will not be raised, instead entitlement programs will be cut. Unless once again you mean Libor, that will be raised and banks will raise the rates to borrow but the Fed will not raise the rates. Next week should be interesting, I predict the Dow will hover in the high 900's by week end. Let the games begin!!!

China is now insisting that the US institutes painful measures such as cutting social spending. Is it not eerily reminiscent of the 1980s when the Bretton Woods institutions and the US pushed down the throats of the developing world the infamous Structural Adjustments Programmes (SAPs) that resulted in widespread poverty? We used to get regular doses of haughtily-delivered dressing downs about fiscal discipline etc. What goes around surely comes around! How the mighty have fallen...

@Nabwire ma sisto oh! When a contry live beyond de means jost like a purson, the resolt is the same oh! #Naija#

Let's await Tuesday's Fed meeting. If they pass more QE then I will be more than convinced that the US intends to inflate its way out the recession.

In the meantime...listen to #Young Jeezy - The Recession. Goes something like this, "It's the recession..ey'body broke..so I just came back..to give ey'body hope.." [The Recession album, '08]

and also when US corporate earnings are supported by sales from emerging markets as domestic sales drop.