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The Value Gap: America’s Original Accounting Fraud
There is an unspoken ledger in the United States. It doesn’t appear in budgets, GDP figures, or campaign speeches, but it quietly governs outcomes all the same. Call it the value gap, the stubborn, deeply embedded assumption that some lives, specifically white lives, carry a higher premium than others. Not the ranting of fringe extremists, …
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Bretton Woods and the African Debt Trap: How a 1944 Financial Order Still Controls a Resource-Rich Continent by Lawson Akhigbe
Africa Africa is often described as a poor continent. That statement is repeated so often that it has become accepted as fact. Yet it collapses under the slightest inspection. The continent holds some of the world’s largest reserves of gold, cobalt, lithium, uranium, diamonds, oil, gas, manganese, rare earth minerals and fertile agricultural land. The …
The IMF’s Two Languages of Pain by Lawson Akhigbe
There is a certain elegance to the language of international finance. It rarely raises its voice. It does not shout “suffer.” It says “adjustment.” It does not say “people will struggle to eat.” It says “fiscal consolidation.” It does not say “your transport costs will double overnight.” It says “market correction.” And nowhere is this …
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Edo State Anti-Cultism Law 2025: Can Government Demolish Your Property for Another Person’s Crime? By Lawson Akhigbe
The fight against cultism is a legitimate and necessary objective of government. No society can prosper where criminal gangs terrorise communities, engage in killings, extortion, kidnapping, and violence with impunity. The people of Edo State are entitled to security and the government is under a constitutional obligation to provide it. However, in pursuing that objective, …
