The
speech followed a pattern Dr. Bawumia has become notable for: a masterful blend of solid policy and hardcore politics that is
often difficult to untangle by objective Ghanaians seeking to rely on the technocratic experience of the former senior Bank of Ghana official to make sense of Ghana's economic situation in an unbiased, non-partisan, manner.
An old joke that Peter Lynch
often brought up when given the opportunity to give a
speech went as
follows: Lynch would describe a press release that has legendary Magellan mutual fund trounced the S&P 500 by five, even ten percentage points in some years, and later that day, he'd get a call from a client saying, «Yeah, that's nice, but why'd you buy that dog Bethlehem Steel?