Cees Bruggemans: SA Growth Momentum
We tend to focus on tailwinds boosting growth or headwinds reducing it. Much rarer is the focus on growth momentum. This is Cees Bruggemans’ latest piece,
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Cees Bruggemans: Take the bait or ignore?
Cees Bruggemans talks local and international bait: Rand, inflation, interest rates, news, politics. Do we take it or rebuff it as sensationalism?
What losing my job taught me about finding my way
It is in these pertinent moments, when life does what life does, and brings up situations like looming retrenchment, that a change in perspective is what we need.
Trudi Makhaya: Economist of Dreams
As an analyst and commentator for Business Day and eNCA, Trudi Makhaya is highly sought after for her views on the complexities of competition, economic policy, and business strategy.
Peter Wilhelm: Staying positive despite eish-kom, ‘anti-vaxxers’ and the youth
Peter Wilhelm shares with the Biznews community another one of his laugh-out-loud, tongue-in-cheek satirical columns. The perfect dose of reflective comedy to get you through the rest of the week.
Lucy Kellaway: Big bank’s happy:grumpy ratio is no way to audit staff
It is called the happy:grumpy ratio, and measures how many cheery staff the bank employs for every curmudgeon.The point of this exercise was that happy employees are more likely to do the right thing than unhappy ones.
SA’s most valuable resources are being put out to pasture
Imagine if the average person did not retire at age 60/65 – what is, after all, simply culturally entrenched, arbitrary and becoming increasingly meaningless as average lifespan creeps ever upward.
Cees Bruggemans: SAÂ interest rate prospects
SARB last month was severe and hawkish enough to make it sink in that the bar is set very high for any interest rate cuts this year. Instead, it was allowed that this country needs more reform rather than more monetary accommodation.
Mike McWilliams: Let us give thanks to the Americans for a change
In the case of the oil sector we’ve got to give the U.S. some credit, according to Mike McWilliams. Even if Sasol’s been left with less pudding.
Cees Bruggemans: Trust, Distrust & Growth
Distrust sows distrust and vice versa, don’t be surprised if a rule-making, taxing, social-engineering, encroaching state is viewed with private suspicion.