Daan’s Snippets 2019-8
Economics - Is it possible to grow an economy, paying attention to exclusion and inequality: inclusive prosperity? A Harvard professor believes that we could move...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-7
Economy - The KZN in government has ambitions to bulk-buy for spaza shops: socialist drivel from a bunch who cannot properly distribute condoms.
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Rationality...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-6
Economy - Goldman Sachs has suggested that the global economy may have bottomed out and that green shoots are emerging. The Daily Maverick reported that the...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-5
Economy - I had long known that tax comprises a large part of the cost of vehicle fuel; I had not known that taxes account...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-4
Economics - Some years back, local chicken farmers complained that they were not being protected by the state. We have all eaten imported cheap chickens...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-3
Economy - Sales of new passenger cars slumped by some 10% in January compared to that of the January before. Whilst optimism is permeating our...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-2
Economy - Sweden has adopted its own official cryptocurrency coin: http://breakingrightnow.com/10029938811aav/
Business
On 1 February I received a notice from Google+ to the effect that...
Daan’s Snippets 2019-1
Economy - The Absa PMI rose to marginally positive in December, the best level of last year. The Business Confidence Index deteriorated marginally to 31...
Daan’s Snippets November 2018/25
The first time is a mistake; the second... When a clerk, my secretary was the erstwhile shot-put and discus champion of the Eastern Cape; not...
Daan’s Snippets November 2018/24
With pleasure - In 1985 I was hired as a conveyancer and was stuck into Groot Dries’ agency conveyancing practice. Learning to collaborate was the...
Daan’s Snippets November 2018/23
I have a friend who collects strange friends. Several of them are involved in MMA and such. They ride Harleys, sport tattoos, carry (in...
Daan’s Snippets November 2018/22
Borshare mistake - We are tuff okes, tired but tuff, nikse limp-wristed Swedish massages, we go for the deep tissue massage; vir ouens met spiere....
