Listening to the brilliant and charming CNN presenter John King on RTÉ1's Sunday with Miriam was so enjoyable, it struck me that we're probably in a lot more trouble in this world than we think.
You need to allocate capital to it, right? What has worked for us in Norway is to have a very long-term view on what we do. It has broad political anchoring. It means that when you have a change in parliament or in government, you do not change the way we invest.
The echoes of Truss in 2022 are unmistakable. Back then, it was a reckless mini-budget that shattered market confidence. This time, it's a government lurching from one policy retreat to another, raising serious doubts about fiscal control and political authority.
Zimbabwe has been experiencing political instability in the last month. A faction of the ruling ZANU-PF party has called for the the resignation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in light of a reported plan that he would extend his final term after its official end in 2028. Blessed Geza, a veteran of the 1970s war of liberation and former senior member of Mnangagwa's ZANU-PF party, has been leading the verbal attack on the president and called for protests around the country to take place last Monday, March 31.
