Mike Schüssler

We're more educated than ever before, and more unemployed.

The real median policy rate is now 2.5% below inflation. If it increases, the world debt bubble will explode.

Hard talking ahead, and not the usual nonsense – action is needed.

The country's unemployment rate is five times that of the world average. Forget the Great Depression, this must be clinical depression.

Despite doubling social protection spending in two decades, SA is more unequal than ever.

These two events have dented the country's economic recovery in a short time.

They can only be addressed by growing more.

But only recently. They take time to have an effect, and they need to stay low for a long time.

The coronavirus pandemic is about to give way to the biggest debt and unemployment crisis ever.

Government wanting to solve its funding crises using peoples' retirement savings is wrong on so many levels …

Has SA decoupled from financial reality? The markets seem to think so.

With world trade in its steepest decline in a decade and local manufacturers squeezed by export uncertainty and slow domestic demand, freight operators are under pressure.

The country's private sector has taken on minimal risk – if any.

Most international stock exchanges, when measured and converted into rands, beat SA inflation.

In rand terms, gold has best maintained its value over the last 50 years.