TONY LEON | SA’s economic crisis began gradually and then suddenly it was upon us
The costs of government borrowing to fund its limitless appetites is turning our economy into a dystopian horror show
17 October 2023 - 21:01
American commentator George F Will recently reprised an old joke to describe his country’s unrestrained and incontinent appetites for ever-larger budgets and widening fiscal deficits...
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