Neil Coleman

Institute for Economic Justice🇿🇦
Co-Founder, Senior Policy Specialist.
Former unionist. Politics~Economics🌍
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[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

Good people.
Don't let the climate deniers, the exploiters, the oligarchs, the wreckers of people & planet
👉demoralise you
👉defeat you
Goodness, solidarity, decency, can prevail.
But only if we refuse to despair.
Resist! For the sake of humanity & our children.

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

@ZohranKMamdani @TamukaKagoro77 https://t.co/eMOTQsFvsD

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

PSG fans showing up to another Champions League final with Palestinian flags again.

Last season, their “Stop Genocide Gaza” banner became one of the biggest football activism moments in recent history.

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

@ThandoAfrika https://t.co/eMOTQsFvsD

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

PSG fans showing up to another Champions League final with Palestinian flags again.

Last season, their “Stop Genocide Gaza” banner became one of the biggest football activism moments in recent history.

[SACP @SACP1921]

WATCH LIVE: Conference of the Left, held in Boksburg

https://t.co/JQjeZ6BH9P

[Institute for Economic Justice @IEJ_SA]

STATEMENT | Repo rate hike tightens the noose on our struggling economy.
The IEJ is concerned by the Reserve Bank's decision to raise the repo rate to 7.00%, warning that further tightening risks worsening investment, unemployment, and household debt pressures. - https://t.co/HLkB6eOkpL

[Institute for Economic Justice @IEJ_SA]

"Six individuals have to make a decision on the most important single economic variable for 60 million people."
Ahead of today’s MPC decision, revisit the discussion on whether SA’s monetary policy framework is stabilising the economy or constraining it. https://t.co/jTO9Ic7JZz

[Institute for Economic Justice @IEJ_SA]

Days before the next SARB MPC decision on interest rates, we ask: Is our inflation-targeting regime stabilising the economy or holding back recovery?
🎙️Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh with Gina Schoeman Ackermann, Dr Roelof Botha & Dr Mzwanele Ntshwanti.
Now streaming! https://t.co/HHUUbPVmXE

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

Israel is moving to seize the West Bank – & silence makes it easier for the occupation. I signed this petition to push leaders to freeze trade & sanction Israeli ministers pushing this illegal takeover. Add your name &help make this impossible to ignore. https://t.co/LG5SSi4oz9

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Q: “Is South Africa sacrificing growth and jobs at the altar of inflation targeting?”

A: Yes

Q: “Can an economy trapped in economic stagnation, deindustrialisation, structurally high unemployment and deep inequality afford a monetary policy framework primarily designed around disinflation and investor credibility?”

A: No, but the primary role of the SARB since around 2000 has been to maintain “financial system credibility”.
If everything else burns down, that’s just too bad. As long as the finances are “sound”.

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

Raising interest rates will have no impact on these external shocks, & can only hurt households & businesses & worsen unemployment. This is the price we are expected to pay for meeting the inappropriate 3% inflation target.
Read more here
@IEJ_SA @_SMWX
https://t.co/rajObOhvjK

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

The Monetary Policy Committee meets Thursday. Speculation is that instead of cutting interest rates, they will increase them to 'counter the impact' of price rises arising from global oil, food etc shocks following the Iran war.
Follow the debate here
1/2
https://t.co/m7pnsbBY3k

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

Raising interest rates will have no impact on these external shocks, & can only hurt households & businesses & worsen unemployment. This is the price we are expected to pay for meeting the inappropriate 3% inflation target.
Read more here
@IEJ_SA @_SMWX
https://t.co/rajObOhvjK

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

The Monetary Policy Committee meets Thursday. Speculation is that instead of cutting interest rates, they will increase them to 'counter the impact' of price rises arising from global oil, food etc shocks following the Iran war.
Follow the debate here
1/2
https://t.co/m7pnsbBY3k

[Daily Maverick @dailymaverick]

Is South Africa sacrificing growth and jobs at the altar of inflation targeting? https://t.co/LpIsqL91x6

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

@AnythingLFC_ Highly unlikely. A more interesting possibility is that if we beat Brentford and Villa lose to City, LFC would squeak into 4th.
But on current form LFC more likely to draw or lose and end up a feeble 5th 🤷‍♂️.

[Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh @SizweMpofuWalsh]

🚨NEW EPISODE: Unpacking SA’s monetary policy with Dr Mzwanele Ntshwanti, Gina Schoeman and Dr Roelof Botha, in collab with @IEJ_SA. Ayeye!🔥

[Institute for Economic Justice @IEJ_SA]

Interest rate decisions affect home loans, debt and vehicle repayments, disposable income, business costs, investment, and jobs.
Ahead of the next @SAReserveBank MPC meeting, we ask: Is monetary policy suppressing growth without fixing inflation? Streaming soon!

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

@thiagoavilabr Heroes.

[Institute for Economic Justice @IEJ_SA]

Ahead of the next SARB Monetary Policy Committee meeting | Can high interest rates fix inflation driven by fuel prices & global shocks?
With weak growth, mass unemployment, & renewed inflation pressures, we ask: Is SA’s monetary policy stabilising or constraining the economy?

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

@novaramedia @underthetrees2 Given Liverpool (the city's) history of solidarity with the anti apartheid movement & the people of Palestine, this is unbelievably disappointing, & painful to read, as an LFC fan since 1982.
Fans worldwide & the people of Liverpool must put pressure on LFC to change course.

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

https://t.co/sKt2b2TCL5

[Neil Coleman @NeilColemanSA]

Disciplining capital?