The private sector is providing road repair, fire protection, and traffic control.

People are opting for private alternatives to government.

In a normal economy a wealth tax would be a mistake. Now it would be catastrophic.

Not much to cheer about this year.

SA is facing a lot of challenges created or exacerbated by bad policy.

Good policy is producing vastly superior results in Botswana.

This won’t produce good results.

South Africa runs headfirst into the Laffer Curve.

What does the OECD have against South Africa?

When asked about the most worrisome statistic for a nation, I don’t say it’s the top marginal tax rate, even though I think class-warfare taxation is very poisonous for long-run economic performance. Nor do I say it’s the burden of government spending relative to private economic output, even though the size of the public sector gives us a good idea of the degree […]