iSayiTrade
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iSayiTrade
@iSayiTrade
Passionate about economics & investing. JSE member since 1991. Created & managed an Online Trading Portal. Retired but looking. Against all racial intolerance.





Bill Clinton adviser James Carville once quipped that when he died he wanted to come back as the bond market: “That way you can intimidate everybody…” Today is scary short-term, critical in the medium term, and good longer term as GNU does proper checks and balances…

"Right now, we've got limited revenue limits. Our revenue, as it stands, is not able to fund every priority, every ambition that we have."- President Ramaphosa

#OUTA welcomes the appointment of the new @myNSFAS board and wishes them success in their important task. We hope good governance will prevail, and will continue monitoring NSFAS - it is too important for our youth's future to fail. #GoodGovernance #Education #NSFAS

If you only consume media that is focused on your own target group, you will inevitably be alerted by streams of news that serves your particular group. So some believe there is a white genocide because they only consume one stream of news. If news agencies that serve the Afrikaans or white community had to report on every black person that died in this country by violent crime, every day, there would be a completely different picture. Sadly no one would buy the papers, watch the channels or listen to the station. That's on us. Madiba read 5 newspapers every single day. Because he believed that getting different opinions on any subject matter helps you make decisions from a more informed perspective. Social media hasn't helped because we all follow people that think like us as opposed to those with a different perspective. Time to open our worlds to get a balanced view. That's of course if you are not only driven by self interest.

It’s extremely odd to lecture Europe on the subject of free speech and democracy at the same time as [the US is] cuddling Putin. In Mr. Putin’s Russia, people who disagree with him disappear, or die, or flee the country, or — on a statistically unlikely level — fall out of high windows somewhere in Moscow. Former UK Prime Minister John Major

In America’s darkest hours, Canada has always been there.

There is a substantial divergence in the reaction to the Trump #tariffs. Mexico sent troops to the border and got its tariffs delayed by a month, opening room for negotiation. Panama quit its deal with China. Canada, like a school teacher, reminded the US of the past and put together (some) tariff response. Eurozone: Apparently, it is still looking at some 'compass,' hoping it will all be fine. To be clear, Trump's actions will hurt US consumers and the US economy, which must be offset by 'victories' like those in Mexico and Panama. One may argue that these countries 'caved,' but is clinging to your ideologist and assumed superior views while your competitiveness dwindles really any better? (chart via @steve_hanke)

BREAKING NEWS:

Trump has now officially signed his trade war into effect.... heaven help us all.





