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Sona: Strong emphasis on previously addressed themes and an appeal for a social compact to achieve concrete change
Yes, markets were dreadful in October…
But it is not all doom and gloom. It is the month of October, the most beautiful month of all … The translation does not do it justice, but this is more or less what C Louis Leipoldt wrote when he captured the explosion of colour and revival in nature in his Afrikaans poem Oktobermaand. Market watchers will probably describe October 2018 with a single colour: red. While the local market…
Stay the Course
“Stay the course” is a phrase that has its origins in nautical metaphor and has been popularised by world leaders primarily in the context of war or battle. According to Stewart Alsop’s 1973 memoirs of a conversation with Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister contemplated towards the end of World War II: “America, it is a great and strong country, like a workhorse pulling the rest of the world out…