by Wonderr K. Freeman, Mon, Lib Originally Published in December 2017 In the Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump match-up [2016], Michelle Obama made the famous quip that “when they go low, we go high”. Of course, the “low” was a reference to Trump’s bare-knuckle, no-smear-barred style of campaigning. And the “high” was Clinton sticking’s to the issues and the script. Unfortunately, judging from how the American
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By: Atty Wonderr K. Freeman, Originally Published in November 2013 The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL, herein after) and its Governor, Dr. Mills Jones, have been under pressure lately. Its microfinance and SME policy has come under heavy suspicion by the Liberia Senate and other Liberian technocrats. It’s not farfetched to say that most of the senators don’t quite understand that boring subject called economics –
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By Atty. Wonderr Koryenen FREEMAN Originally Published in February 2015 On February 23rd at the Monrovia City Hall, some of Liberia’s most well-known political and economic elites got together to talk about a perennial economic problem – Liberia’s dual currency policy. It was a “high-level” roundtable, so I wasn’t invited. I make no fuss about that! Like G. Henry Andrews, I am only too content with
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By: Wonderr K Freeman, Attorney, Monrovia. Liberia Originally Published in July 2017 Liberians have generally accepted an [LRD/USD] exchange rate in the 50s-60s, and have tolerated an exchange rate in the 70s-80s. They have murmured and grumbled as the rate approached 90s-100s. But an exchange rate above LRD100:USD1, and in fact approaching LRD120:USD1, is a whole new ballgame. At this stage, prices are running through the
Find related articles hereby Wonderr K. Freeman Originally Published in February 2012 Couple of days ago, I was combing through my stack of local dailies, and noticed a recurring theme: streams of good news of the great work the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) is doing. I came across headlines such as “CBL accounting policies sound”, “banking sector experiences growth, says CBL”,” Liberia foreign reserves swells” etc.. It seems,
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Originally Published under a pseudonym – in June 2019 No one doubts that President George Weah is a master dribbler. He has the medals to show for this claim. And in the political realm, master dribbler Weah has also exhibited quite some dribbling skills on the likes of Brumskine, Tubman and Sirleaf. In politics, however, a dribbler is view quite unfavorably, more as a schemer. And
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