The Running Commentary

So it is my contention that a wage settlement above inflation in fact is more detrimental to the country as a whole

While the economists are saying that signs are improving the real economy is in your pocket. As long as you feel the pinch times are tough.

What we do know is that under prudent financial management, sometimes you have to make unpopular decisions….

Plenty of strike action appears to be on the cards, in what many commentators are calling “The Strike Season”. The effectiveness of these actions will forever remain a point of discussion around which no agreement will ever be reached. The “workers” withhold their labour (without pay in most instances) in an attempt to extract the [...]

So the couch economist has so far, in his relatively short career (12 months), called every move that SARB and the MPC in particular have made. Interesting was the commentary that said that Tito had arrived “guns blazing” for a 200 basis point cut in the rate. The positive side about this comment is that the [...]