Pete’s blog

Going to be another rant this week. Will try and come up with something positive next week (maybe get an alternating rant/positive thing going…)
I have been reading an old economics textbook from ‘varsity – before you think I have lost my mind reading textbooks, I am applying for a job in Standard Bank’s economics […]

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Democracy is a very elusive thing – how do you get it and how do you keep it (and do you really want it anyway)? Is South Africa’s attitude towards Zimbabwe and Aristide perhaps the way to promote democracy, and is America’s intervention in Iraq the wrong way?
Firstly, what is democracy? Democracy at […]

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This week is about capital, money, investment, alcoholism and Africa
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently released a report on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) – that money flow that every developing nation covets. China beat America in 2003 as the world’s largest recipient of FDI – an extremely interesting fact. Many […]

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Going to start my weekly emails with a small rant.
My rant is about how de-politicised everyone is. Having studied this stuff for a while, it is scary how ignorant I used to be about what was going on in my country, and why it was happening. The thing is, I can now see […]

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