Finweek - English

Shelter your wealth

We have seldom been in a bigger mess economically than we are now. The financial system, in fact, is more fragile than we have been told and could still unwind at frightening speed.

The only other time that I can recall something similar in South Africa was when the Hertzog government of the early 1930s stubbornly refused to abandon the gold standard and pushed the country deeper and deeper into the Great Depression.

We seem to be in a matching boat now,

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