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The unforgivable cost of state-protected monopolies
Category: Blog/Analysis
... FM receivers. This is the unforgiveable cost of state-protected monopolies, of the abuse that comes with unaccountable and sweeping authority. The cost is felt in innovation, investment, new job creation ... Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
And the eyes are always on us
Category: Blog/Analysis
... monitoring systems as widely as Zimbabwe and Iran. Companies will hire consultants and install software to massively increase security and information encryption. The costs will be passed on in higher ... Thursday, 25 February 2010 -
Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
Category: Blog/Analysis
... in sulphur emissions. Within a decade, sulphur dioxide levels fell faster than anyone had predicted and for much lower cost. A similar mechanism to reduce carbon emissions would be expected to work ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
The World Cup is further away than many thought
Category: Blog/Analysis
... The only alternative is for South Africans to subsidise the airfares and costs of every visitor. International visitors are welcome and we hope you have a fantastic time. But don’t think of South Africans ... Thursday, 11 February 2010 -
Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
Category: Blog/Analysis
... The current prize stands at $2 million. The economics of space elevators are simple. It costs well over $11,000 per kilogram to lift a payload into space using conventional rockets. The cost of using ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Kenya and the mixed expectations of technical investment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... no interest network building in South Africa anymore. “We believe that the other players are large and the cost of building a network in SA is heavy. Our emphasis and our focus is now East Africa.” Just ... Thursday, 17 December 2009 -
The delicate subject of patents
Category: Blog/Analysis
... yield on the cost of ownership. This works so well that it has formed the bedrock of the path to wealth and economic stability. The problem comes in when we consider the property created by our minds. ... Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
Objective Country Investment Risk and Opportunity Analysis
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... Rapid and Consistent: Save time and costs in understanding global growth opportunities; Objective Comparisons: Benefit from an unbiased and objective decision making tool; ... Wednesday, 25 November 2009 -
American healthcare reform is merely a warm-up for the rest of us
Category: Blog/Analysis
... their cause. The US system costs 16% of GDP, and leaves some 15% of the population uncovered by healthcare. The UK system of national health covers everyone, and costs 8.4% of GDP. Life expectancy ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Getting the most out of a toaster
Category: Blog/Analysis
... quiet breakfast together and you reflect that each slice now costs you in the region of 40 cents. But toast is still toast. The amount of labour required to produce one slice in an eight-slice toaster ... Thursday, 12 November 2009 -
Get your money for nothing and your mp3s for free
Category: Blog/Analysis
... be copied and distributed. The reason we do this is to permit the creator a period of monopoly ownership in order to recover the costs of their investment, and make a reasonable profit. The reason we ... Thursday, 29 October 2009 -
Purchase Emerging Market Risk Reports
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... Russia Serbia Slovenia Ukraine Latin America Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela Middle ... Friday, 16 October 2009 -
The trouble with exports
Category: Blog/Analysis
The South African rand trades at about R 7.70 to the US dollar. This rate implies that, if you travel to another country, whatever you buy there should cost the same as you buy locally, when you account ... Thursday, 15 October 2009 -
To consumers go the spoils of competition
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to run on the operating system resulted in frustration for consumers. At the same time, the dramatic rise in popularity of netbook computing – low-cost, low-power mobile devices – meant that the resource-hungry ... Thursday, 08 October 2009 -
Towards sustainable and organic work
Category: Blog/Analysis
... for one month for free. What they’re basically saying is this: “Lose your pay for one month, or lose it entirely when we retrench thousands of people to cut costs.” Other companies are following suit. ... Thursday, 17 September 2009 -
The end of the line for wild tuna
Category: Blog/Analysis
... the cost. Commercial whaling is banned, yet the Japanese and Norwegians still subsidise their fleets even as they have scaled down their operations to “research” levels. The divide between the stated ... Thursday, 03 September 2009 -
The race between education and technology
Category: Blog/Analysis
... is by making the cost to companies of employment cheaper. If the costs of technology or of imports are raised instead it will simply drive investment elsewhere. Government incentivises companies to export ... Thursday, 20 August 2009 -
America's new environmental laws put pressure on global carmakers
Category: Blog/Analysis
... vehicles. These rules require that manufacturers achieve average fuel-efficiency targets of 12.4 kilometres per litre, up from the current 9.6 km/l, by 2016. This is expected to add R15,000 to the cost ... Thursday, 13 August 2009 -
Picking winners has unintended consequences, sometimes they cause gas
Category: Blog/Analysis
... of living, or we must accept significantly higher energy costs (or we can continue as we are and learn to wade). Economists have calculated that, if the true cost of environmental pollution is levied ... Thursday, 06 August 2009 -
The privilege of employment
Category: Blog/Analysis
... laying off people as soon as things get tough. The more people who work for a company, the more the owner is forced to spend time on legal compliance and staff management that is costly and doesn’t generate ... Thursday, 30 July 2009
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