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Should government pay less to employ more?

18 May 2012

The 11th UASA South African Employment Report, presented by economist.co.za director Mike Schüssler, provides frank insight into the domestic jobs market. Titled South Africa cannot afford South Africans, Schüssler’s stark conclusion is that it is time fo

Other people’s money

07 May 2012

Until a few minutes ago I had no idea what I wanted to write about in today’s Stokes’ Stage. Over the past week or two I’ve exhausted the e-tolling issue and written extensively about the so-called Secrecy Bill. And I’m not keen to plunge headlong into th

E-toll or bust

13 April 2012

Website wikipedia.org defines propaganda as a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.” In recent months the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) has used and abused both online

An unsecured lending bubble looms

23 March 2012

The trouble with market bubbles is they inflate in plain view. We watch as they expand and even comment on how wonderful the growth in the underlying asset class is. In the United States, for example, house price growth was virtually exponential through t

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