America’s ‘exceptional’ lack of a female President in global perspective
May 12, 2016 02:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Most Americans believe in the exceptionalism of our nation. However, when it comes to electing a female president, the U.S. is not exceptional. Rather it is an exception to the rule. The U.S. ranks 97th in global...
Election explainer: what are the opinion polls and how accurate are they?
May 12, 2016 00:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Business
Many opinion polls will be published during the election campaign. Most use either live phone polling (calls made by a human), robopolling (computer calls) or an online panel (poll sample selected from a large database of...
U.S. Election Series: How Dollar may respond over Trump or Hillary?
May 11, 2016 12:09 pm UTC| Commentary Politics
Donald Trump is now Republican Partys presumptive nominee for the presidential race, while Hillary Clinton is still fighting Bernie Sanders. Hillary is very much likely to be Democratic Partys presidential nominee and has...
U.S. Election Series: May 10 primaries show the trouble facing Donald Trump
May 11, 2016 07:09 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Donald trump was largely expected to win May 10th primaries in Nebraska and West Virginia and he won. Closed in further to win 1237 delegates, required to win an outright nominations. After winning, he greeted the crowd,...
U.S. Election Series: How S&P 500 may perform under Trump or Hilary?
May 11, 2016 06:28 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Since markets are not good at pricing non-binary events, it may not be until the very last day, markets react to the certainties or uncertainties of new President of United States. Given the negative publicities...
U.S. Election Series: Trump and Sanders win again
May 11, 2016 05:33 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Republican partys presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, who is the last man standing in 17 competitor race won again in yesterdays primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska. Trump was largely expected to win, even if Ted Cruz...
Rushed reform benefits no one in the end
May 11, 2016 02:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
For students and universities, the 2016-17 budget held few surprises. Full deregulation is dead and the budget provided a one year deferral on the cuts to teaching which have not yet passed parliament. The government...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects