Tag: SA Economy

A rather unexpected course of events late Sunday night (13 December 2015), as Zuma “reconsiders” his decision to fire finance […]

SA tourism has not had a good decade, marked by global economic crisis & falloff in travel, reinforced by own […]

What’s striking recently is the retreat of Chinese luxury, the impression of weak global industry but strong services sectors, weak […]

It may not always be obvious but SA macro policy is fighting many hard battles with our collective interests uppermost […]

The things to fear most at present? There is so much to choose from. Even when excluding the personal and […]

Discontent of all kinds simmers just below the surface, indicative that the nation’s managers aren’t quite managing to stay on […]

Just a few weeks ago (in September), American equity markets experienced a sickening fall (reading too much into US & […]

In our never-ending quest to understand our times and be better prepared for what might still be coming, if at […]

Things could have been a whole lot worse, thinking October 1929, 1987, 2008. But they are not. We aren’t on […]

There is a deep anxiety about China that may be wildly overdone.   China’s financial markets, to put it mildly, […]