America has used its advantages brilliantly, often brutally. There is much to admire, celebrate and decry as it turns 250
Rates hikes are on hold, and unless there’s a speedy resolution in Iran, consumers are looking at the prospect of sharply higher debt costs
Anchor your share portfolio with a few quality stalwarts and you won’t go wrong, reckons the money manager who bought his first share aged 13
Despite last week’s pause, White House advisers are apparently still full steam ahead on Trump’s tariff plan. Sanity, it seems, will not prevail
Faced with 50% tariffs on exports to the US, Lesotho is making a dangerously large number of concessions to the White House
The US’s desire to drive down the value of the mighty dollar is regarded as central to the unpredictable and hugely volatile tariff war now in play
Dissecting the Trump administration is complicated. But it’s clear the US no longer has the power, or money, to maintain its dominance
The blunt approach taken by Donald ‘The Apprentice’ Trump is getting results – but true diplomacy with lasting solutions must be a lot more subtle
Donald Trump threw a grenade into South Africa’s first meeting of the G20 finance ministers, with a threat of 25% tariffs for Europe
It’s time to play a smarter game in our relations with the US if we want to prosper under Trump 2.0
Trump the transactional is in the White House, and all deals are on
How investors in South Africa should play the big themes of the year: AI, Trump and China (here’s looking at you, Naspers)
The US ambassador on South Africans ‘finding each other’, the price of being free, and constructive international relations. But no word on the Lady R
Did the ANC receive a large amount of money from Iran to take the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice? And is South Africa a proxy for Iran’s…
Odd thing, victory. During the US election campaign, president elect Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine by Inauguration Day. Victory means having to put that promise…
As investments in new ventures go, it’s hard to imagine Elon Musk being interested in developing a golf course or building a hotel, which is about as entrepreneurially…
