SA in 2017: A world trumped up by politics
SA enters a new year of uncertainty and hope amid a surprise US election results and a political conundrum here at home
Thanks for nothing, 2016. It’s been an annus horribilis if you like your US presidents sane and brainy, your musical gods alive, your SA honourably led, your Middle East stable and your Europe intact. And the show’s not over yet, folks. The new year is itching to snatch the baton of insanity and run with it. Brace yourself for an annus plus horribilis. Starting point We might as well begin this speculative exercise in the obvious time and place — the inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump on January 20 — and weigh up the chances that he will proceed to break what remains of the global economic and political equilibrium. The markets have rolled with the punch of the installation of a belligerent, crooked clown as the world’s most powerful man, and the NYSE even rallied at the prospect of his pro-rich platform, which may yield a domestic infrastructure boom, tax cuts and wage inflation if illegal migrants are excluded from the US labour market. Already there have been hints a...
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