The ALSI – never to recover?

One of my favourite financial writers is Vic De Klerk who writes for FinWeek, among others. He wrote a very interesting article in the latest FinWeek which I thought I would share with you.
He reckons that the ALSI will not recover to its high of 32 000 in the next 20 years! That’s quite a [...]

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Follow on from the multiplier effect

On the 29th of October I posted an article written by Stephen Mulholland that I found in the FinWeek about the Multiplier Effect. In a later edition some guy named Wilhelm Loock wrote back with a response to Stephen. I found it interesting and a nice follow on from that article.
Wilhelm writes:
“The 4 businessmen were [...]

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What is Bretton Woods?

If like me you have been hearing this term but not too sure what it is, I found an excellent explanation in the Financial Mail in October written by Claire Bisseker.
 
What was Bretton Woods?
 
Western leaders met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, US, in 1944 to agree on the common rules to govern the [...]

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The multiplier effect

I read a very interesting article written by Stephen Mulholland in FinWeek in October. He talks about a concept that I remember studying in Economics called the multiplier effect. I’ve adapted this article from what he had to say in FinWeek for the blog.
 
Take a read, I would appreciate your comments.
 
A salesman arrives at a [...]

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