by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 6, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics C Ryan: ”… the JSE Top 40, in red, looks decidedly pedestrian against the S&P 500, which returned 278% over 10 years against the Top 40’s 28.3%.” Our Reserve Bank governor held, a week-and-a-half ago, that there is a case for lowering the banks...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 28, 2021 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Our economy is recovering and so is our Consumer Price Inflation rate: speculation holds that the Reserve Bank is expected to begin to hike interest rates later this year. Boring. The truth is not always saleable. An argument was raised this week, that BEE...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 21, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics You would, no doubt, have seen that our economy is now predicted to grow at some 5% this year. The interesting thing about this is that the economists, who so predict, say that we should be able to maintain that momentum – especially if the government is...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 14, 2021 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Progress: is unlocking embedded power generation not perhaps a catastrophe? Much has been made of the surprise move to increase the generation threshold for companies without a licence from 1 MW to 100 MW, holding that this would unlock investment and growth,...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 8, 2021 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy The sums involved in dodgy and dishonest deals brokered by our political incumbents in government are staggering: just those in Eskom are said to amount to R178bn; easily enough to vaccinate everyone in South Africa against CV 19. Then there is the R500bn lost...
by Daan Steenkamp | May 4, 2021 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Let’s forget about tomorrow .. Let’s forget about the money.. For tomorrow never comes… (Sinatra) – us old folks would recall. Today’s generation is in the throes of central bank spending like there is no tomorrow and, we are told that if this had not been...
