TONY LEON | I hear you like big numbers, Mr President, so let’s zero in on that 12 million
One number went unmentioned during the ‘celebrations’ marking Workers' Day
02 May 2023 - 20:26
Writing in the Financial Times this week, Sarah O’Connor confessed: “I hate big numbers. Or rather I hate it when big numbers are used to impress or bamboozle rather than to make sense of the world.”..
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