“No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that’s why we have two parties.” Bob Hope In the run-up to elections, markets tend to move up and down depending on which candidate is leading the polls.  History would suggest that for the most part, this is an exercise in futility […]

“As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.” Nelson Mandela This pandemic is a ‘pain in the you-know-what.’  It has disrupted our lives with all sorts of new protocols and practices, and taken some pre-existing trends, i.e. work from home, and hyper-accelerated them. Unfortunately, one […]

“My new normal is to continually get used to new normals.” Anonymous The natural progression in economics is for an ‘unprecedented’ crisis to be followed by a ‘new normal’.  The old modes and models are discarded and replaced with ones that reflect the new post-crisis reality. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that amidst […]

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience” George Bernard Shaw We begin our commentary in the most unimaginative way possible, with a simple dictionary definition. unprecedented adjective never having happened or existed in the past This is not due to a lack of inspiration nor is it intended […]

“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you” Stealers Wheel The ‘middle’ can conjure up negative images and connotations: mediocrity, compromise, the dreaded middle seat. It is neither here nor there and lacks colour and tone, falling into the realm of boring, average, mundane […]