Overconfidence is often a contributing factor to market crashes, like the financial crisis of 2008.
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Both ‘cum ex’ and Enron scandals show how traders can manipulate complex financial regulations to their advantage.
One person should not bear sole responsibility for a loss of US$2.3 billion at a global financial institution employing 65,000 people.
Wealth addiction is as powerful as any other, but instead of urging addicts to get help, we often admire them. Yet they do much more damage to the world at large than your average coke fiend.
The protest by Zimbabweans against police road blocks and banned imports highlights a new political economy that is rising on the back of informalisation of the economy.
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