Twenty-five years since the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa, the country remains home to some of the most market-invasive, race-based economic policies in the world. At the...
Russell Lamberti
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Russell Lamberti is founder of investment advisory firm ETM Macro Advisors. He is the co-author of When Money Destroys Nations, a book about Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation crisis. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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To understand the principle that has been called Say’s Law, it is useful to start by thinking about what unhampered exchange is: the mutual offering of goods and services between people. Seeing...
Many central banks around the world aim to achieve some “inflation target” either as a single explicit policy goal — as in the case of the South African Reserve Bank — or part of a set of policy goals...