Jerry Schuitema
SEIZING THE MOMENT.
The profound significance of our times. By Jerry Schuitema Some 400 years ago, a group of English explorers and an indigenous American...
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Jerry Schuitema
- May 11, 2020
- 4 min
Empathy, trust and lockdown.
The vital need to restore and protect free functioning markets. Locked in sorrowful limbo one can be forgiven for clutching at straws of...
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JERRY SCHUITEMA
- Apr 17, 2020
- 3 min
Hearing my father.
From a generation that endured 4 devastations. My father was born in an age of severe deprivation. He was an infant at the outbreak of...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Mar 14, 2020
- 4 min
Debt implosion looms large
A question many are asking after the Corona virus played havoc with the markets these past few weeks, is whether we are witnessing the end o
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Jerry Schuitema
- Jan 20, 2020
- 4 min
Bracing for big bubble bursts
From one cliffhanger decade to the next. 2019 must surely go down as a year that produced the most cliff-hangers on a number of fronts:...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Dec 29, 2019
- 4 min
The party pooper.
Have the fiscal warriors thrown down the gauntlet to unhappy workers? Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy statement...
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JERRY SCHUITEMA
- Dec 29, 2019
- 4 min
The party pooper.
Have the fiscal warriors thrown down the gauntlet to unhappy workers? Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy statement...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Dec 1, 2019
- 4 min
Drowning in debt with more to come
Passing the buck to future generations. It won’t be the first time that I have been castigated for maintaining that fuller context can...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Nov 11, 2019
- 5 min
Changing the South African narrative
Putting events and indicators into fuller context. There’s been much talk lately about “changing the South African narrative” – helped...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Oct 18, 2019
- 4 min
“In gold we trust”. 2019 Report
Recent thoughts on restoring the metal as the core of money. Very few South Africans have not been affected in some way or another by...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Sep 9, 2019
- 4 min
Losing our marbles.
How much can we still trust prices and statistics? As pre-teen kids one of our favourite schoolyard games was marbles. We would draw a...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Aug 12, 2019
- 4 min
An unemployment reality check.
The impact of behaviour on the unemployment crisis. We have become a nation of takers. Without recognising this we will not fully...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Jul 15, 2019
- 4 min
Name; shame; throw in jail.
Time to hold individuals behind corporate and financial malfeasance accountable. Justice is the supreme condition that makes societies...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Jun 17, 2019
- 5 min
Weathering a financial storm.
The power of changing some of our economic assumptions and promoting flexibility. The global trade wars remind one of a see-saw in a...
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Jerry Schuitema
- May 6, 2019
- 4 min
Messing with money.
The greatest experiment in the history of global finance is underway. Many events in history have passed virtually unnoticed in their...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Apr 9, 2019
- 4 min
Between hope and despair
The impact of electioneering on our widening trust deficit. Within hours of the new incoming SARS commissioner, Edward Kieswetter...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Mar 14, 2019
- 5 min
Inclusivity: the possible dream.
The crucial role we can all play in promoting inclusion. Every election time one is reminded of the exciting prospect of South Africa’s...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Feb 4, 2019
- 4 min
Yellow vests and the Davos freeze
Are Looming global economic problems understated both internationally and at home? Of the many international gatherings addressing global...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Jan 15, 2019
- 4 min
Digital tyranny
A personal reflection on the human crisis produced by the 4th industrial revolution. It is common cause that the real crisis to humanity...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Dec 11, 2018
- 4 min
The accountant’s new dawn.
Seeing the numbers through a different lens. (Click on picture above for free PDF copy of the book) Few professions have been through as...
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