In which year did SA business confidence reach its highest point on record? That was the pop quiz question put to the audience at this week’s 80th anniversary conference of the Bureau for Economic Research (BER).

The BER calculates the business confidence index each quarter from surveys in which it asks hundreds of business people across a range of economic sectors a simple question with a yes or no answer: “Are you satisfied with prevailing business conditions?”..

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