Yeah, yeah, bitcoin is dead. We know
The price doldrums in which bitcoin finds itself, and the collapse of the FTX exchange, have made it fashionable, once again, to declare crypto, or
DA/ANC coalition? Hell no. Confidence and supply? Maybe
There is great excitement about the possibility of a coalition of ‘wild dog’ parties excluding the African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
Bitcoin: Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Manias, panics, and near crashes have plagued the cryptocurrency market. After the collapse last week of FTX, other exchanges which buy and sell digital assets
Do the poor not need private property rights?
In a recent column about the future of the Free Market Foundation, Tim Cohen makes an interesting observation: ‘You have to actually own some property
When it’s Russia in 1917
In rhetoric reminiscent of the Russian Revolution, the South Africa Communist Party headed its Red October Campaign ‘Land, Food and Work’. And in rhetoric that
The next twist in SA’s social justice saga
Is social justice to economic development what physics is to engineering? No. Social justice mixes ethics with believing in a false utopia. Economic development, like
A warmer climate reduces weather extremes
The warmer the climate, the less extreme the weather. Storms, hurricanes, floods and droughts would lessen in frequency and severity in a warmer world. If
Can an EFF/ANC coalition actually work?
Increasingly, by-election results and the polling we’ve seen so far suggest that it is very likely that, in the absence of some dramatic shift in
The looming fiat disaster … or will it be different this time?
On 15 August 1971, the President of the United States at the time, Richard Nixon, took the world off the gold standard. This was possible
Reform the electoral system; don’t break it!
The Electoral Laws Amendment Bill is a hastily written disaster in the making. You can’t just add independents to a closed-list proportional representation system and