Tag: infrastructure damage
Bombs, blood and bonds
The bigger the military operation, the more sophisticated the financial machinery required to fund it. The Bank of England, today still the UK’s central bank, was created in 1694 as the government’s bank, largely to finance its ongoing wars with France.
Hot outdoor commodities for the ultra-rich
During the month of September, many homeowners flock outdoors to enjoy the start of Spring; this may even result in a purchase of a plant or two for one’s garden. But if you are super rich, your love for the outdoors may culminate into spend of anything between R500,000 and R1 million on a single tree for your property.
The real impact of the crisis on SA’s economy
As calm steadily returns after the recent social unrest, analysts are hard at work tallying the cost of the looting and disruption to economic activity. So far, the damage to 2021 growth is estimated at between 0.5 and 1.0 percentage points.
Satellite enables cloud services
Private cloud, public cloud, it doesn’t matter effectively cloud computing combines computing with a broad grid of data communications. Mostly, the grid is supplied by the global internet, provided you have a reliable connection to the internet.
