Daan’s Snippets – 20th of 2019
Economy
President Mnangagwa says that the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar will be a “return to normalcy”. If one were a sceptic, normalcy means bankruptcy...
Daan’s Snippets – 19th of 2019
Economy
The week before last it was reported that Zimbabwe would be releasing its own currency by year end. It’s interim currency, the RTGS $...
Daan’s Snippets – 18th of 2019
Economy
The SA BER index remained unchanged in Q2 at 28 points. RMB opined that a technical recession for the first half of this year...
Daan’s Snippets 17th of 2019
Economy
Silver bullet economics: post-election economic debate has centred on job creation and the Reserve Bank. Calls are made by a variety of worthies for...
Daan’s Snippets – 16th of 2019
Economy
Stats SA reports that 44% of SA households receive at least one social grant, up from 30% 15 years ago. This somewhat depressing news...
Daan’s Snippets 15th of 2019
Economy
Despite the exuberance that accompanied the swearing in of our latest Parliament, our economic outlook remains bleak: the OECD now estimates our growth forecast...
Daan’s Snippets 14th of 2019
Economy - Stats SA reports that retail sales registered pedestrian growth of just 0.2% yoy for the first quarter of this year. It is...
Daan’s Snippets 13th of 2019
Gentle Reader, My name is Ozymandias. Look on my works ye mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains.
My patricidal sons, bent on expediting their hereditament,...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-12
This will be the last newsletter for a few weeks: I shall be living it up on a dirt bike with my sons in...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-11
Property - Instant Property Network has started a platform for property transactions using Blockchain: the intent is to create a trusted record which eliminates duplication...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-10
Economy - Skills: a note written by Bernstein, head of the Centre for Development and Enterprise, attracted my attention: she wrote on what was necessary...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-9
Economy - StatsSA reports that our government’s gross loan debt stands at R2.2trl at present and should stabilise at R3.5tln. This equates to a present...
