1 year ago this week

Here’s how we saw the world this time last year…

There is no such thing as ‘capitalism’

Our take on why there is no such as capitalism and why prosperity will only return when people stop trusting in the state to solve all their problems…

Moody’s gets in on the act

We expressed our concern at the global sovereign debt mountain piling up…

Explaining rand ’strength’ to the non-economist

One of our many posts explaining why the rand was getting stronger and why it would keep appreciating in 2010…

Berlin Wall Day: 20 years on

Tomorrow the post-Berlin Wall world will turn 21, but far from becoming an adult in freedom it remains mired in protectionism, big-state nannyism, huge deficits, unsustainable entitlements, corporate bailouts, overbearing central banks, limits to free speech, and ideological wars and proxy conflicts…

Race-onomics

Eskom was falling apart at the seams and no-one is quite sure whether it has actually begun recovering or not…

SA government destroys 224,000 jobs

Nothing’s changed except now the state wants to “create” 5 million jobs over the next 10 years.  Good luck with that…

10 most bearish articles on the global economy

We counted down our top-10 most bearish articles on the global economy.  Read them to find out just how well the predictions are playing out and to see what is still to come despite Mr. Bernanke’s best intentions…

Rand has lost 90% of its purchasing power since ‘91

Why the SARB has failed in its 1989 legislative mandate to “protect the value of the currency”…

South Africas 3 to 6 percent wealth destruction target

What the reserve bank’s 3-6% “inflation target band” is really doing to your money…