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December 11, 2025

One stablecoin to rule the world

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December 11, 2025

And the winner is... Gold, of course. 2025 will be remembered as the year gold thrashed bitcoin.

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December 11, 2025

Bitcoin is not the fast route to wealth

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December 11, 2025

Can I become a millionaire on an average South African salary?

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December 11, 2025

It turns out AI trading bots behave just like humans - they lose (mostly)

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December 11, 2025

A glimmer of hope for SA?

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December 11, 2025

Why are you still paying SWIFT fees?

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December 11, 2025

Is this the future of social media?

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December 11, 2025

Why the reserve bank's 3% inflation target will help the poor

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December 11, 2025

Fiat is broke

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December 11, 2025

SA's population may be closer to 100m than 63m

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December 9, 2025

Why stock trading is a losers game

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December 9, 2025

The growing clamour to outlaw gambling advertising

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December 9, 2025

Is South Africa uninvestable?

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December 9, 2025

What happens when you measure stock market gains in gold rather than USD?

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December 9, 2025

When we stop measuring bitcoin in fiat

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December 9, 2025

Why using 80eight for cross-border remittances is the smart move to make

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December 9, 2025

Just how big is the crypto market in SA?

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December 9, 2025

Is digital ID a threat to our freedom?

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December 9, 2025

Gold or gold shares?

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Trading

October 28, 2025

Are we in a commodity super-cycle?

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News

October 28, 2025

What happens when the banks fall in love with crypto

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News

October 28, 2025

When governments get desperate, they try to tax unrealised gains

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Property

October 28, 2025

Buying a house in rands vs bitcoin

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Trading

October 28, 2025

The Nasdaq has its Magnificent 7, the JSE has its own Terrific 10

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Should I invest in Bitcoin or Altcoins?

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Is Bitcoin cheap at $115k?

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News

October 28, 2025

Scam city

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News

October 28, 2025

Is it true that SA’s unemployment rate is 33% or 10%?

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Trading

October 28, 2025

What’s the biggest opportunity of the next decade?

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Trading

October 28, 2025

Are the Magnificent 7 losing momentum to AI stocks?

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News

October 28, 2025

South Africa, we have a gambling problem

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Is gold better than bitcoin?

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Trading

October 28, 2025

Japan, the canary in the coal mine

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

What saving in bitcoin looks like

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Are we in the Fourth Turning?

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News

October 28, 2025

Have we reached the bottom of the interest rate cycle?

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Trading

October 28, 2025

Copper prices plunge in reaction to US tariffs

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News

October 28, 2025

The rand weakens on US tariffs shock (and lower interest rates)

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News

October 28, 2025

Stablecoins will swamp central bank digital currencies

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News

October 28, 2025

Bitcoin revisits previous high at $123k

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News

October 28, 2025

Taxpayer collapse imminent?

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Forex

October 28, 2025

The rand at R100 to the USD

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Is it time to abandon exchange controls?

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News

October 28, 2025

Why foreigners don’t love us anymore

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Why Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade matters

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News

October 28, 2025

Budget brawl: Is SA racing toward a constitutional crisis?

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News

October 28, 2025

Will AI bring an end to personal income tax?

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Forex

October 28, 2025

What’s up with gold?

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News

October 28, 2025

Who are the best traders in the world?

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News

October 28, 2025

Flying taxis, humanoid robots and AI-powered cures for cancer – a look into the near future

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News

October 28, 2025

Will Trump turn on SA?

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News

October 28, 2025

Some thoughts on Davos

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

AI’s predicts current bitcoin cycle top between $100k and $288k

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News

October 28, 2025

Take a look at which jobs are about to disappear

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

XRP breaks through $3, bitcoin hits R2m

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Forex

October 28, 2025

The rise and rise of the USD

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Bitcoin hits R2 million – next target R3 million

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Forex

October 28, 2025

The rand as a global “powerhouse”

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

The long view favours stocks (that is, until bitcoin arrived)

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Fear and greed

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Imagine bitcoin at $1.5 million

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News

October 28, 2025

What the future looks like with AI

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News

October 28, 2025

How many hours of work does it take to invest in the JSE?

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News

October 28, 2025

Elon trolls the world

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Not a bad year for the barbarous relic. Even better for bitcoin.

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News

October 28, 2025

The AI power crunch

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Silence of the naysayers

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Bitcoin is starting to compete with gold as a store of value

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News

October 28, 2025

SA public sector workers earn 50% more than the private sector

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Are you just going to sit there and watch?

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News

October 28, 2025

Are SA banks too big and too fat?

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Altcoins pump

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News

October 28, 2025

SA’s evaporating manufacturing sector

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Stablecoins versus The Banks (stablecoins are winning)

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

What’s up with Ethereum?

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Signs of a bull market in its infancy

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Sore losers

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

MicroStrategy’s Book Value Versus Its Market Value

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Forex

October 28, 2025

South Africa’s Staggering Cost of Sending Remittances

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News

October 28, 2025

Trumporia

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Crypto

October 28, 2025

Why the world is learning to love stablecoins.

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News

October 28, 2025

Betting platform Polymarket has Trump winning the US election.

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News

October 28, 2025

MicroStrategy’s huge gamble on BTC

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Forex

October 28, 2025

Remittance is a huge (and expensive) business

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Property

October 28, 2025

Can you become a multi-millionaire on a McDonalds worker’s wage?

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Trading

October 28, 2025

Debunking some myths about markets

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News

October 28, 2025

Can you really become a millionaire on an average South African salary?

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News

October 28, 2025

Macro Monday

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August 29, 2025

Government spending and wealth inequality go hand in hand

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August 21, 2025

With AI, is your university degree worth anything?

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June 24, 2025

If you could choose a currency for your savings, what would it be?

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June 24, 2025

Reserve Bank forecasting errors

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June 24, 2025

Are we witnessing a 1929 stock market setup?

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June 24, 2025

Cryptocurrencies are not subject to exchange controls

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June 24, 2025

Money down the drain

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June 24, 2025

Why European banks will blow up in the next few years

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June 24, 2025

Is KYC really that safe?

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June 24, 2025

The rise and fall of great empires – are we there yet?

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June 24, 2025

Conspiracy theories

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