NewsBetting platform Polymarket has Trump winning the US election.
Polymarket Predicts Trump to Win US Election Cryptocurrency-based predictions market Polymarket has Trump winning the US elections.
NewsBudget brawl: Is SA racing toward a constitutional crisis?
The clock’s ticking—April 1, 2025, looms like a guillotine over the Government of National Unity (GNU), with the 2025 Budget dangling in limbo.
NewsCan you really become a millionaire on an average South African salary?
Moneyweb recently posed the question: Is it possible to become a millionaire on an average South African salary? The answer, not surprisingly, is of course you can.
NewsElon trolls the world
Elon Musk’s $44 billion investment in Twitter (now X.com) seems to be paying off. It has opened channels of communication previously shut to people like Donald Trump and others on…
CryptoAI’s predicts current bitcoin cycle top between $100k and $288k
AI predicts current bitcoin cycle top between $100k and $288k A few months ago we challenged various AI services to give us a bitcoin price prediction.
NewsAre SA banks too big and too fat?
The five big banks in SA account for 90% of all banking assets in the country. In USD terms, the banks have combined assets of $430 billion, larger than SA’s $400 billion GDP.
TradingAre the Magnificent 7 losing momentum to AI stocks?
A recent research report by Coatue suggests the reign of the Magnificent 7 (shown in the graph below) may be coming to an end and is about to be overtaken by an AI supercycle.
CryptoAre we in the Fourth Turning?
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe, published in 1997, examines the arc of history and concludes that the world follows a pattern of roughly 80-100 year cycles,…
PropertyBuying a house in rands vs bitcoin
Check the graph below which shows the cost of an average South African home purchased for R1 million in 2017 and then escalated in value by the average price increase over the…
CryptoFear and greed
The Bitcoin Fear & Greed index registered its largest drop in years when it sank last week from 74 to 50 – and then promptly reversed to 69 in a day.
NewsHave we reached the bottom of the interest rate cycle?
The SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) has cut the repo rate to 7% which was expected given the benign outlook for inflation.
NewsHow many hours of work does it take to invest in the JSE?
An interesting chart from Codera shows how much easier it is for a South African to purchase a piece of the JSE Top 40 Index Tracker than it is for a US worker to enter the stock…