Commodity Exchange Fuelling Inflation

Dear Editors,

I have been watching current price developments on the mercantile exchanges from Chicago to Kuala Lampur; I predict that inflation will get worse, whether in Ethiopia or elsewhere. A lot of the private hedge fund money is pumped into commodities as the stock market is slumping.

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Opposition Parties Need Clear Economic Policy Alternatives

Dear Editors,

You described very well in your editorial a few weeks ago headlined, “Parliamentary Soap Opera, Ideological Chaos” [Volume 8, Number 412, March 23, 2008] how the opposition has lost sight of ideologies they represent. There is no better evidence of this than the debate in Parliament during the same week, which shows how the opposition is flimsy in position when it comes to economic issues.

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“Coptic” Term Derogatory

Dear Editors,

This is in response to your recent article headline, “Half-way to Easter” [Volume 8 Number 413 March 30, 2008].

The columnist, Girma Feyissa, made an assertion that the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church is “Coptic”. Copts are Egyptian Christians, who have the same doctrine as the Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia. But the latter are not Coptic.

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