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Stand Up! Business — 113 episodes · page 1 of 2
Donald Trump and the problem of having a BEE in your bonnet
The inconvenience of knowing the whole truth
SA winning international team events, losing local common purpose.
Feasting at the Buffett
Is freedom just another word for nothing left to lose?
The popes legacy and the future of the budget
Tariffs have two "f"s
My f** Marelize!
The nappy law of politicians and the futility of tariff wars
What is the (diplomatic) state of brand SA?
SA sources of capital are (expletive deleted)
We are 100 podcasts old, but let's have a budget for the youth
The new world (dis)order: is that an iceberg we see?
What’s brewing in that VAT?
Everybody’s war and nobody's budget.
Legalise artisanal mining, leave for the USA, and stealing without a conscience
Exciting Deep Seek, middling mining, boring repairs and maintenance
Is there enough common ground in GNU in the year of the snake?
Playing the Trump card - again. And the matric results ... degrees of success.
The morality of yachts and the ANC's January 8th statement
The certainty of uncertainty. And numbers ... big numbers
The year of elections ends mixed, like the best cocktails. Cheers!
Presidential powers are just another brick in the wall
Creating money and the value of bananas
Should we rent out Simonstown for bitcoin?
Money buys power; will PPP’s really work? + … ?
Elections, elections everywhere: change is gonna come, organised crime and the underground economy.
The medium term budget per capita, D-day for the USA
LIVE RECORDING: The future, the election and the rugby
Springboks for sale; the forces of nature and technology
Should the PIC split, and the world unite?
Chickens and China ...
Diamonds, the weather, municipalities: the challenge of adapting to change
Our pet subject: the interesting things about interest rates
Financial skullduggery and ineptitude from VBS, to the construction mafia to Transnet.
The magic of Trillion $ companies and a couple of pots
No consensus on the census | Reviving Joburg city centre | the ROI of university courses
When will the political merry-go-round settle | Is working from home working
Are government and business NBF’s: the real numbers about the olympics
Hundred metre dash | Volatility | Crowd wisdom
Olympics, the GNU starts well and the retailers race for market share
Biden takes our advice, SA's cities, and handbags at dawn
Sport, success, and succession
Right! Let's go left.
The art, culture and sport of cabinet making
When is a GNU not a GNU?
Is democracy working for the old and the young?
What should we do about the Gnu. And the lipstick index.
Democracy works, now we need to.
The Vote; the future of family empires; government starts selling SOE’s
Lowest common denominator outcomes, healthcare, and golden oldies
Loadshedding solved? (true or false); pass the baton not the buck; new body parts going cheap
Why are we so wet; disinvestment blues, school-boy science. (Zero election talk!)
Electricity supply? (yawn); Elections? (yawn); and the Art of investment
Another bank, really? SA's electricity miracle: and what eats beetles?
The costs of war; who wants to be a politician; does SA have too many malls?
The Cape of Storms, how to properly PPP and the woes of billionaires
Debating euthanasia, fighting others’ wars, and April fooling
Jooste’s final demise, outsourcing SOE’s, and India’s election
The cacophony of political party manifestos, water water ... and what is waste
Teaching drama at school, Pravin Gordhan's incredible career and sad countries (yes, we are one)
Eskom and decentralisation, and the power of one in capital markets.
A feast of manifestos, prescribed assets and the horror of a cattle ship
Russia, the budget and the looming retirement crisis
The Sona snore, appropriate punishment and aging politicians
The exciting event season: Sona, the mining conference, the Grammys and the soccer. And banks.
Its all about the pi; and elections ... and ESG investment.
Variable degrees of lying; fires in Joburg; the conflict society
A Davos haircut, SA's listings crisis, ai ai ai!
2024 a prime example of an exciting year, bolting aeroplanes down, and the CompCom's banking woes
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EDITION. (Er, not that special.) The new politics; why so many CEO's are leaving: and the COP-out.
SA’s growing tax squeeze, and the gradual victory in the battle against AIDS
AI is a contradiction; happiness and money; water taps
Any port a storm; OpenAI now, er, closed; and of course the fish
The trouble with China, numbers and the 2024 election, and the formula for hope
The ongoing Gaza tragedy, mini-budget madness, and what do you do with a sport-mad nation?
Halloween and the mini budget (in that order), the Boks and leadership, and lying
The two kinds of people in the world; CEO departures; and the debt sweet spot
The gut-wrenching Gaza drama: lies, damn lies and statistics, and ... you know
Transnet and the rugby, VSP’s and the rugby, and the rugby
The weather, seriously!, fatherhood and satellites
Spring tides and what's wrong with SA's SOE model
Solving the fiscal crisis, schooling Elon Musk, colouring the Boks
Marshalltown fire, fixing Transnet, and who is the "R" in Lady R?
The Boks, Brics+, Inflation and Rolls Royce. Did we mention the Boks?
Another BRICS in the wall, Phala Phala excused by the Reserve Bank, and real/fake diamonds
Rapping it up, new EV battery inventions, and the Karpowership scandal
The joy of womens' sport, government's cash crunch and fixing the taxi wars
Malema and the boers, business and the government, and the global bounce
The silver linings playbook and the economics of Taylor Swift
The Zuma/Putin prisoner swap deal, global population shifts and the lessons from tennis and rugby
Snow and climate change, the Post Office in business rescue, and whether the JSE is in fact a chocolate box
The ecstasy of cricket, being uncompetitive, and huge executive payouts
Rushing around Russia, SA's undervalued stocks and Unisa's poor report card
The Mauritian miracle, the Poland debacle and the National Health Insurance debate
The Ace of baseness, AI and the surprising S&P500 bull run, tremors and crocodiles
Homo naledi, the joy of pilchards, and getting stuck in lifts
The loading of fokol debate, interest rates, and the efficacy of cardboard box incubators
Cholera outbreak, grumpy business, and SA’s attempt to to educate its children to become more ignorant
Russian ship debacle, Eskom book debacle, and looking good in court.