Howzit, My China?!
(Economics)
Picture a train. Up front we have our Big Boy locomotive, representing the infallible US. Unbeknownst to the economic convoy that follows, our loco enters a dark tunnel of financial [...]
Read More- Posted on 24th Mar 2010
by Derrick Carolin - 1 comments
Whatever Happens, Hide the Truth
(Economics)
There is rather more to the electricity price increases granted to Eskom and announced recently by Nersa, the National Electricity Regulator. And it doesn’t make for comforting reading.
Very roughly, Eskom [...]
- Posted on 4th Mar 2010
by David Gleason - 1 comments
Beware Greeks Bearing Statistics
(Economics)
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 More- Posted on 25th Feb 2010
by David Gleason - 3 comments
Government Deficit
(Economics)
Within two weeks South Africans have had to endure two incredibly boring speeches. The first one, JZ’s State of the Nation address, was filled with the usual recollections of the [...]
Read More- Posted on 22nd Feb 2010
by Jerome Mitchell - 3 comments
The harmful effects of BEE
(Economics)
Speech by the CEO of the South African Institute of Race relations, Mr John Kane-Berman, to the Solidarity trade union.
‘Empowerment which disempowers’
I wish Solidarity every success in its current series [...]
- Posted on 19th Feb 2010
by Guest Contribution - 2 comments
The arrogance of the west- “All they need is light!”
(Economics)
Whether you are a global warming naysayer or protagonist, we are destroying the planet.
The industrial sector must take most of the blame.
Calls for international carbon output restrictions have been hailed [...]
- Posted on 18th Feb 2010
by Stuart Hayward - 10 comments
That Fatefull W
(Economics)
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 More- Posted on 12th Feb 2010
by David Gleason - 6 comments
Up, up & away….
(Economics)
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 More- Posted on 10th Feb 2010
by David Gleason - 0 comments
On the Other Hand..
(Economics)
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 [...]
- Posted on 8th Feb 2010
by David Gleason - 0 comments