If we were the US or China, we could spend our way to happiness. But we’re not
These are huge economies with huge internal markets; SA is a tiny market, exhausted and poorly led, so it can’t borrow their fiscal policies
24 October 2021 - 00:00
Readers who lurk on these important pages will have noticed in the past few editions (https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/2021-10-03-sa-doesnt-have-a-debt-problem-it-has-a-growth-problem-and-a-solution/) what might be called an “exchange of views” between proponents of SA spending its way into prosperity and others who argue that we don’t have the money to do it...
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