Billionaire wealth in pandemic
Musk: up $134 billion
Bezos: up $99B
Zuckerberg: up $72B
Page/Brin: up $57B each
Ellison: up $54B
Buffett: up $34B
Gates: up $31B
Ballmer/Knight: up $29B each
Waltons: up $28B
Average billionaire: up 60%
Every one paid a lower tax rate than you.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive...those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
~ CS Lewis
Thread on Chinese Currency Manipulation. You're going to like this. I had a question for my analysts, what does it mean "China is manipulating its currency?" I've distilled their answer. You're about to become a pundit destroyer. Let's begin...China has a dual currency system...
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Batohi estimates R1.4 trillion stolen in state capture. How much is 1.4 trillion ? If a rand was a second, a million rand would be 12.5 days. A billion would be about 31 years, and a 1.4 trillion would be 40 THOUSAND YEARS. Try to get your arms around that. It is a WTF number.
The idea of providing written consent to deeply flawed people to rule over me catches in the back of my throat like a cheap tequila after too many beers. The electoral process might not cause spontaneous projectile vomiting, but there are times when it comes close.
Takeaway from #Budget2019:
We pay more, receive less, need to cut more, because #TomMoyane's #Sars couldn't make target.
Again.
The guy is like a bad hangover that refuses to go away.
A R42,8-billion hangover this year, to be exact.
I hope SARS' new units gets us out of this hole
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