Earlier I posted about some of the changes to the market for e-readers. Â If you’re interested, you should also read these two stories: Interview with Koos Bekker (Naspers) on the impact of the iPad for old-school print media. Â The interview covers a range of topics – iPad is covered about halfway down. Â He seems really…
Bain performed research on current and likely future demographics of e-reader users. The current situation: early adopters of digital reading devices and multipurpose tablets mostly are already heavy readers. In numbers, they are more often men than women. They also describe themselves as more affluent than average and tend to be in their 20s and…
I’ve heard it said (of the US) that there is no national property market, but rather than local property markets are relatively independent of each other. I guess this was more true before 2007 than it is today. Property in one area is a weak substitute for another property in a nearby area, and an…
It’s clear to me that the biggest and longest lasting impact of Apartheid will be the disastrous effect it’s had and is continuing to have on education. We won’t fix employment or economic growth or prosperity (and in a roundabout way many other social ills) unless we have a truly fixed education system. But, passing…
Recently I described how employment in South Africa is a totally different ballgame to that in the US, and as a result needs different strategies to fix. The starting point then is to understand the causes of our structural unemployment in order to figure out how to fix it. Why do we have high and…
I hope Make A Million’s systems are playing up. Â Otherwise some players are losing more money than I ever expected.
We’re doing something wrong in South Africa. India’s economy grew at 8.9 percent in the second quarter, an acceleration from the brisk growth rate posted for the previous three months.
Junk Bonds are debt instruments issued by corporates that have relatively low credit ratings. Â They pay interest at high rates as a result. Typically viewed as risky investments, the junk bonds boom of the 80s showed that there is more to junk than just a risky investment. Locally, our pension funds and other retirement savings…
