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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

US economy – that recessionary feeling

Source: Tom Toles, Yahoo News (via Barry Ritholtz’s Big Picture).

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Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Feb 18 – 24, 2008)

Investors had to stomach another roller-coaster ride last week as mounting concerns about a recessionary US economy and the implications for global growth and corporate earnings continued to weigh on sentiment. Read all about this in my regular weekly blog post, highlighting some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week, and briefly reviewing the week’s market action on the basis of economic statistics and a performance chart.

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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

SA Budget 2008/9

By Alwyn van der Merwe
In the good old days economists used to work through the night to get their reports out following the budget. The reason was not only work ethics but the fact that previously the budget was full of surprises as the process was certainly not an inclusive and open one. Under Trevor […]

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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

South Africa – so many challenges, so little time.

By Adrian Clayton
Driving along the N2 yesterday I was again reminded without any doubt that South Africa is my home, not Britain, Canada or Australia, but SA with its unique problems and complexities that only a South African can relate to.
Other than swerving for the ever present N2 pedestrian traffic dodger that miraculously escaped a […]

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