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Fin24.com Opinion

Who put a dose of reality into the tea urn at Eskom? Certainly, the positive financial results announced by the electricity utility on Wednesday marks a significant turnaround in the economic fortunes of both the parastatal, and the country for that matter. With R3.6bn in real profit - ...

Marc Ashton

Can't wait...

They say that no good deed should go unpunished and when I woke up this morning to find " SA seeks Bric membership " heading up Fin24, I knew what had to be done. Has somebody explained to the President that you can't become a "member" of the Bric (Brazil, Russia, India and China) grouping? It is a...

Fools Paradise

Horison

In economics there is something called a black swan event. It describes a complete economic collapse and the liklihood is assumed to be roughly the same as seeing a black swan hence then name. I want you for a moment to imagine the life of a bum. If I were to ask you what the key difference ...

Read This!

Yes, thank you so much!

First of all, thank you to all those who nominated this blog in the Top 10 category for the Best Business Blog of The Year. If you scroll down in the right hand panel, you will find the voting icon. I appreciate your support! It is now a little more than two years that I have been blogging here wit...

TheFinancialCoach

Open letter to Oupa Magashula

Dear Sir Part of the service offering of our financial planning business involves assisting people with their tax returns (we submit over 140 each year as well as 80 provisional tax returns). Tax is not really something that we enjoy doing nor is it a profitable aspect of our business. However, it ...

Day Trader

Wednesday 28 "Sit in"

Hi Traders, “ We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” H. G. Wells “ Whenever you fall, pick up something.” Oswald Theodore Avery What a good idea it was...