About David Gleason
David is recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost financial journalists and his Torque column appeared weekly in Business Day until he had a run-in with editor Peter Bruce. He is also the principal shareholder in Gleason Publications and publisher and editor of three successful niche publications DealMakers, which covers mergers and acquisitions and general corporate finance activity, Catalyst, which covers the private equity industry and without prejudice, a corporate law magazine designed to bring the law into the ambit of business people. When he’s not busy publishing and writing David is stirring things up on his weekly current affairs radio programme, The State of the Nation, on Classic fm 102.7.Website: http://www.gleason.co.za
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Gold Producers’ Currency Headache
The recent quarterly results from the major gold producers are all reasonably satisfactory with AngloGold Ashanti as the star performer. Its recovery over 2009 has been something of a local [...]
Read MoreBeware Greeks Bearing Statistics
In my column of Feb 8 – “That Fateful W” – I set out the reasons underlying the deeply felt concerns of a number of eminent economists about the state [...]
Read MoreNever, never, give in…
In late January this year, Food & Allied Workers’ Union (Fawu) general secretary Katishi Masemola told the media that the union would await evidence that burned Amalgamated Beverages Industry (ABI) [...]
Read MoreThat Fatefull W
Nouriel Roubini, the New York University-based academic the New York Times ominously baptised “Doctor Doom,” has made it an inconvenient habit of getting it right. Most recently he has labelled [...]
Read MoreUp, up & away….
As far back as November last year I discussed on Classic fm (in the State of the Nation programme which I host) the issue of looming price hikes in airline [...]
Read MoreOn the Other Hand..
The local economists’ club is in disarray. They’re at sixes and sevens over what is actually going on. Let’s take a look.
Private sector credit demand just keeps on falling. It [...]
Raping The City
Cases of corruption and gross incompetence – or one or the other – have become so commonplace in South Africa that, just as the citizenry has become inured to endemic [...]
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