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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: audacityofhope on September 20, 2020, 10:42:03 AM

Title: Jubilee legacy in ruins like this Africa Tallest building dream
Post by: audacityofhope on September 20, 2020, 10:42:03 AM
If we wouldn't have had these 10 years, we wouldn't be having minnows around us comparing themselves with us, now we are minnows ourselves down to their level, bowing to their egregious demands.

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/africa-tallest-building-dream-now-lies-in-ruins-2303620e
Title: Re: Jubilee legacy in ruins like this Africa Tallest building dream
Post by: RV Pundit on September 20, 2020, 11:51:41 AM
The slump in real estate is definitely Jubilee policy mistake - Njomo interest rate control hit the real estate sector as bank loan (credit) disappeared  - The whole policy  backfired. Jubilee has since done away with it.

But it was worth a try. Policy Experimentation is crucial.
Title: Re: Jubilee legacy in ruins like this Africa Tallest building dream
Post by: RV Kirgit on September 20, 2020, 04:52:06 PM
The slump in real estate is definitely Jubilee policy mistake - Njomo interest rate control hit the real estate sector as bank loan (credit) disappeared  - The whole policy  backfired. Jubilee has since done away with it.

But it was worth a try. Policy Experimentation is crucial.

I don't think this would have been bad iff jubilee borrowed internally and bank roll infrastructure that use locally available material and manpower. Money could have trickled back to economy.

Jubilee lowered interest rates, borrowed, stashed cash, and bankrolled chinese, mexico maize etc. That's when Kenyan business started starving.
Title: Re: Jubilee legacy in ruins like this Africa Tallest building dream
Post by: Arcadian_Dreamer on September 20, 2020, 09:27:37 PM
The slump in real estate is definitely Jubilee policy mistake - Njomo interest rate control hit the real estate sector as bank loan (credit) disappeared  - The whole policy  backfired. Jubilee has since done away with it.

But it was worth a try. Policy Experimentation is crucial.

I don't think this would have been bad iff jubilee borrowed internally and bank roll infrastructure that use locally available material and manpower. Money could have trickled back to economy.

Jubilee lowered interest rates, borrowed, stashed cash, and bankrolled chinese, mexico maize etc. That's when Kenyan business started starving.

Nope. Credit for private sector would've been crowded out. There is no way around fiscal probity.

Borrow in bite size chunks and don't overload the taxpayer, that is why Thika highway was not taxing for the public.