The size of government is less important than the way it behaves. The at times cavalier behaviour of the United States under Donald Trump’s “America first” refrain, raises a number of issues that can have a significant impact on the global economy. The more obvious, and one that can affect South Africa’s foreign trade, is the global trade war he has unleashed. Barriers to foreign imports have already triggered the inevitable tit-for-tat response from America’s main trading pa

To the point of Incapacitating wealth creation itself. It’s a cliché, I know, but one can only imagine the positive change that is possible if South Africa, or any economy for that matter, switches focus from wealth distribution to wealth creation. No matter which way one looks at it, one cannot share what has not been created. Eventually all the intangible vapour that has been created through debt, financialisation and asset appreciation, will have to find some anchor in the

Distractions from contributing to the great age of innovation. Leonardo Da Vinci was a truly remarkable human being. This 15th century “Renaissance Man”, not only left an enduring legacy in his art, but inventions and observations that bear testimony to his incredibly diverse mind and insatiable curiosity. These covered anatomy, flying machines and weaponry, architecture and water and land machines. They were so ahead of his time that only years later, indeed sometimes centur