The vital need to restore and protect free functioning markets. Locked in sorrowful limbo one can be forgiven for clutching at straws of hope for a better fu...

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 WW1; a teenager during...

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

Three critical inferences from the latest global trust barometer. When a story is repeated often enough, most old hacks will start ignoring it as old news. T...

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: globally and domestic...

Have the fiscal warriors thrown down the gauntlet to unhappy workers? Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy statement must certainly go d...

Passing the buck to future generations. It won’t be the first time that I have been castigated for maintaining that fuller context can change perspectives ar...

Putting events and indicators into fuller context. There’s been much talk lately about “changing the South African narrative” – helped along no doubt by our ...

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 mining, specifically go...

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 circle and each player...

The impact of behaviour on the unemployment crisis. We have become a nation of takers. Without recognising this we will not fully understand the true nature ...

Time to hold individuals behind corporate and financial malfeasance accountable. Justice is the supreme condition that makes societies work. Few things can d...

The power of changing some of our economic assumptions and promoting flexibility. The global trade wars remind one of a see-saw in a park: the one end depres...

The greatest experiment in the history of global finance is underway. Many events in history have passed virtually unnoticed in their time, only to prove hig...

The impact of electioneering on our widening trust deficit. Within hours of the new incoming SARS commissioner, Edward Kieswetter introducing himself as a “p...

The crucial role we can all play in promoting inclusion. Every election time one is reminded of the exciting prospect of South Africa’s transition to a const...

Are Looming global economic problems understated both internationally and at home? Of the many international gatherings addressing global economic issues, th...

A personal reflection on the human crisis produced by the 4th industrial revolution. It is common cause that the real crisis to humanity on many fronts of th...

Seeing the numbers through a different lens. (Click on picture above for free PDF copy of the book) Few professions have been through as much scrutiny and cr...

And the impact on economic prospects and low levels of trust. I’m not easily given to making economic forecasts. I invariably get it wrong although perhaps n...