Category: Editors Desk
Car sales as a proxy reveal a host of underlying influences and trends not always so readily detectable
This graph showing new vehicle sales in South Africa, landed on my desk last week. The author is...
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Volatility is back. What impact is reasonable to expect in local markets?
Severe volatility in international markets mirrored by an ever-declining Allshare index of the...
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Land, water, money – where are we heading with our own water supply?
An investment discussion during the past week brought to the fore the issue of water. To...
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The finance ministry only asked for one billion dollars, the market responded by offering 2.2 billion
Last week the Ministry of Finance took a calculated risk and it scored big time. As the...
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It’s nice to get dividends, it’s not nice to pay for the losses your companies rake up
The fanfare around the Windhoek Country Club’s dividend to its shareholder, the government,...
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Lots of hot air on fixing the economy – what we need is concrete action
Earlier this week the media received an invitation from the Minister of Finance to attend and...
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There is movement on the NSX. Wow! The economy is alive
A series of unprecedented events unfolded in the local index of the Namibia Stock Exchange (NSX)...
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In the cheetah we celebrate speed and elegance but this animal can be much more than just a large wild cat
If the Scandinavians can breed mink in large numbers for the fur trade, what stops us from...
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Struggling Rand pushes fuel prices higher and higher by the month
The vulnerability of our umbilical link to the South African Rand has resurfaced painfully over...
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Pre-emptive move to identify fiscal risks outside the budget casts a different light on government liabilities
On 16 August the International Monetary Fund released a new country report for Namibia...
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In honour of the life of John Olszewski
“A good day to you and a better tomorrow.” This was the standard greeting of an intellectual...
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The city’s lights are dim and getting dimmer
It seems the City of Windhoek is a very ill patient. Of late, it has endured a fairly rough rap...
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