Monthly: April 2025
Reflections on IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook Report and Trump’s tariffs
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN its latest World Economic Outlook Report released this past week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its global economic growth forecast to 2.8% for year 2025, down…
The economics and politics of the VAT hike
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FINANCE Minister Enoch Godongwana has stated that he sees no alternative to the upcoming Value Added Tax (VAT) hike. He argued in court papers filed last Wednesday that…
The GNU is no solution
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES
I writing this column from San Francisco, California, where I’ve been since April 2. What a remarkable and beautiful country the United States is! Everyone here seems…