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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Traditional rand standby


By Cees Bruggemans
With commodities broadly in retreat, driven along by global perceptions of sharply braking growth, especially in richer industrialised countries, we have a traditional escape valve.
Rand depreciation.
Will this once again come into play, and with what kinds of broader consequences?
So far the rand has been remarkably well behaved. Since 2005, the rand has moved [...]

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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Poll: Grading Bernanke & Paulson


On the one-year anniversary of the credit crisis it makes for interesting debate to reflect on how well the situation has been handled by Messrs Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson. I have therefore deemed it appropriate to ask your assistance to assess the gentlemen’s performance by means of a quick poll.

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