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Prior Savings Is the Ethical Requirement for Retirement

3rd April 2025 Patrick Barron 0

Retirement is seen almost as a right by most people in the West, especially America and Europe. Make it to your sixties and most people expect to retire from the daily grind of earning a [more…]

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There’s no mystique about growth? – But step-one is to restore sanity

25th March 2024 Emile Woolf 0

Over the years, my essays have charted the government’s descent from an ignorance of economic principles, all the way to sheer insanity. And there can be no reprieve while the public mind festers in the [more…]

America

A perfect storm in the making

29th February 2024 Going Postal 0

The New Year is usually associated with a new beginning, a fresh start, or a “clean slate”. Unfortunately, for millions of Americans, these are wishes that are bound to remain unfulfilled – for them, the [more…]

Communism

Germany in limbo: what lies ahead for savers and investors

13th October 2021 Going Postal 0

The September 26 election was an extremely close race, with the eyes of the world fixed upon the country as it tried to find the successor of Angela Merkel, one the most influential and longest-serving [more…]

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Business

How Government Hides the Damage from the Covid-19 Lockdowns

16th March 2021 Patrick Barron 0

Do not believe government pronouncements that the economy is rebounding from very minimal damage caused by unprecedented Covid-19 inspired closures of businesses or that the damage was very  mild anyway. Government will use it favourite [more…]

Emile Woolf, Going Postal
Business

Economic consequences – always ask: Who benefits?

2nd November 2020 Emile Woolf 0

Things don’t just “happen”. Everything in the passing parade of phenomena is the result of something that preceded it: this is the world of cause and effect. Those appointed to hold the levers of power [more…]

Business

Investing on the Stock Market

5th August 2020 Going Postal 0

I wouldn’t ever call myself a professional investor far from it, I am a real amateur. I have had one or two successes and some real flops but in general, I have made more than [more…]

Authoritarianism

Balancing Disease & Cure – It’s Not Just the Virus

1st June 2020 Emile Woolf 0

In his latest book (“The Body – a Guide for Occupants”) Bill Bryson highlights the limitations on what money can buy. He points out, for example, that America spends more per capita on healthcare than [more…]

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Economics

Savings must come first – cash is a mere diversion, part two

31st March 2020 Emile Woolf 0

I am writing this in South Africa, where its currency, the rand, provides a useful illustration of the effects of monetary inflation described in Part 1. When I was last here, three years ago, the [more…]

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