The machinery behind the headlines: interest rates, inflation, the shilling, government borrowing, how Kenyan banks actually make money. Start anywhere. Nothing here is behind a paywall and nothing ever will be.
Four paragraphs, one specific reason, and no sentence that could appear in somebody else's letter — why most cover letters fail in the first line, and the structure that survives.
What goes on the page, in what order, and how to write a bullet that survives a ten-second scan — plus the six things on most Kenyan student CVs that are costing you space and giving you nothing.
Most people fail markets questions not because they don't know the answer but because they can't get it out of their mouth in order. Here is the structure that fixes that.
Not "print money" and not "run the economy." CBK has four jobs, and once you can name them in order, most Kenyan financial news stops being confusing.
Three income lines, one of which everybody forgets. Once you can read a Kenyan bank's results in those three parts, you can read any bank's results anywhere.
Not a hundred facts. Eight numbers, each with a source you can check yourself in about twenty minutes — and what each one is actually testing.
It's a rate of change in a basket you didn't choose — which is why the official figure and your own experience of prices can both be right at the same time.
Treasury bills and bonds, the yield curve, and crowding out — explained as one continuous story rather than three separate lecture topics.
A currency is a price, and prices move for reasons. Here are the five that move the shilling, roughly in the order they usually matter.
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