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Cees Bruggemans

For almost 28 years, Cees Bruggemans served as chief economist at leading South African bank FNB. Often the voice of rationality in a noisy, tumultuous world, he shares a Dutch lack of diplomacy with his forebears, telling it straight especially during times when pundits tend to over-exuberance or excessive pessimism. He is now a consulting economist at Bruggemans & Associates, writes prolifically and, if anything, is even more direct than before he became self-employed. Contact Cees via [email protected]emans.co.za or follow him on Twitter @ceesbruggemans

Cees Bruggemans: External complexity, Internal strain paints worrying picture

6th October 20156th October 2015

There’s no way to predict where the tornado’s heading, or if it will in fact dissipate, but what Cees Bruggemans is sure about, it paints a worrying picture.

Cees Bruggemans’ Age of Decay: Mediocrity – SA’s “new normal”

7th October 20155th October 2015

1994 was the ‘Rainbow’ era, apartheid had been abolished, and change was in the air. Now, enter the ‘Age of Decay’ where weaknesses intruded and the nation was no longer served.

Cees Bruggemans: The ‘What Ifs’ – uncertainty the only outcome

1st October 20151st October 2015

Cees Bruggemans looks at the global ‘what ifs’. What if things do go to the next level. He clarifies that these aren’t forecasts or predictions, just questions – with uncertainty the big winner.

Cees Bruggemans: Future remains weak – R18-20:$ (2020), growth eases to 1%

1st October 201529th September 2015

Cees Bruggemans looks into his crystal ball and can’t see anything breaking South Africa’s current downward trend, anytime soon.

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Cees Bruggemans: Out of the box thinking – Fracking to the rescue

29th September 201528th September 2015

Cees Bruggemans questions the US recovery since 2008, China’s ‘potential’ bigger than expected fall and why fracking can come to South Africa’s rescue.

The future: Cees Bruggemans – Impending US Dollar supercycle, SA unready

23rd September 201521st September 2015

Cees Bruggemans says the recent Chinese commodity supercycle is being replaced by an impending US Dollar supercycle (2016 elections dependent).

Cees Bruggemans: SA’s slippery slope, 9-point plan to nowhere – ‘regruk’ Ramaphosa?

22nd September 201521st September 2015

Cees Bruggemans questions the South African government’s 9-point plan, 7 months later and not much progress bar a few meetings, can Deputy President Ramaphosa kickstart the process?

Cees Bruggemans wears FOMC hat – Ready for Lift Off (EMs will survive)

17th September 201517th September 2015

Bloomberg surveyed 113 economists, pointing to a narrow majority for rates to be kept on hold, while Cees Bruggemans votes for a lift off.

Questionable data (China?) – SA not falling apart, trend’s corrosive

17th September 201516th September 2015

Cees Bruggemans unpacks SARB’s second quarterly bulletin and plays it up against the second quarter GDP data and concludes it’s not only Chinese data that’s questionable.

Cees Bruggemans: SA drifts on wild global, mixed local forces – 2019 change?

15th September 201515th September 2015

Cees Bruggemans says government and business should do something and stop shifting blame onto external forces for the situation South Africa finds itself in.

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