It's very unlikely for anyone to shift the balance in Egypt as long as the majority remains silent.

The point behind these demonstrations is to make people on the street feel like there's political activism. The Egyptian street never saw this kind of movement before.

The police are back to their old habits of cracking down on the Brotherhood.

At the moment we are not prepared to take over in Egypt. We don't want to see the sudden collapse of this regime, because that is dangerous. We know the international community needs stability in Egypt. So we support gradual change toward freedom, step by step, provided those steps are real.

The balance of forces is fragile ... Neither of the two camps can say it represents the majority needed to make the major decisions on the future of the nation.

Most card users -- 56 percent -- always pay off their balance in full each month and the vast majority of the rest do so most of the time. What's important to them is the length of the interest-free period.