...and the last apprentice show I can recall was sponsored by Mvelaphanda back in the days.😂

There is no such thing as a free market. Markets are political constructs shaped by formal and informal institutions that embody certain rights and obligations.

It really doesn't matter if you call it inflation targeting, monetary policy in the main determines capital allocation among different assets classes. We must not allow the SARB to gaslight us. The MPC is mainly responsible for this mess with no.2 culprit being @TreasuryRSA

Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson- I Can Do No Wrong.🎶

He also explores what in Political Economy of Media we call Digital imperialism(my fave course in Journalism school). 🎼“The hills have eyes when you give up lives for the valley of big data” Media surveillance and algorithmic capitalism.

Vum Vum is one of the top 10 greatest love songs ever written.

Economics is fundamentally political — it has never been, and never will be, an 'objective science.' This is because, at its core, economics is shaped by ideologies, human values, competing interests, social norms, and political priorities.

RESEARCH: Consuming meat is associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety than abstaining from meat. (Source: Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition journal)

“Song Cry” will forever be a classic 🤞✨

Alot of my favorites suffer from not having me in the lab. I really don't like saying that. But it's the truth! I find the new shit waaay before it happens.

No amount of wealth can protect you from a country that lacks basic infrastructure.

Today we go to print. ‘New’ Settler or ‘Old’ Tenant? will be available in a bookstore near you, in the next few weeks.

J Dilla- It's your World.🎶

Natural Intelligence still matters, unfortunately smartphone and AI can’t compensate for a lack of it.

Why has the National Development Plan failed? The National Planning Commission (NPC) recently issued a report that shows the abject failure to meet critical targets set out in the 2012 National Development Plan (NDP) on areas such as unemployment, poverty, and inequality, with

South Africa is just a theoretical country. Everything is well articulated in policies and ideologies, but in reality, the outcomes of implementation of these policies rarely reflect what is written on paper.

Chemotherapy kills you not cancer.

The moment u trade your principles for acceptance, u're already dead just waiting for the burial. There is a huge price u pay for conformity and compromising. 😌

I read two books this past weekend. Started a third even. I don't know why I stopped reading as much as I used to but that small commitment last weekend really made me so happy. Shaped the week too. If you wanna feel like your old self again, do the things your old self did.

1789, 1945, 2026: trois crises de la dette L'histoire montre qu’il existe plusieurs façons de s’en sortir, y compris en quelques années et avec des dettes plus importantes qu’actuellement. thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/178…