South African cock fight reveals US trade policy dilemma
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Investors are often taught to focus on economics. But politics usually has the louder voice – and debt and credit risk are likely to…
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South African inflation hit a 20-month high of 4% in April. The fuel surge from the Iran war has shifted the rates conversation to…
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What economists know about strategy that strategists keep forgetting: the constants a business can actually navigate by…
Cheers to Tax Freedom Day
TFD is the day you symbolically stop working for the government and start working for yourself. Where it falls is a bellwether for the…
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March’s economic data provides a sense of things looking up. It belies the actual state of the manufacturing sector…
Jobs market looks grim – and the Iran shock is still coming
The first-quarter jobs print was worse than forecast. Economists say the Iran war’s full impact on the labour market is yet to be seen…
South Africa’s tariff system is choking business confidence
Itac’s tariff investigations now take years, not months. Companies are giving up on a system too slow, too opaque and too discretionary to trust…
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