{"id":243,"date":"2025-04-25T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/?p=243"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:40:00","slug":"weekly-thoughts-25-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Thoughts 25 April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wax on\u2026 Wax\u2026. Sorry, Vat on\u2026 Vat off. Vat on\u2026 Vat off. \u2026for those of us old enough to have watched the Karate Kid\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking a toll on the GNU, this is. Parties desperately seeking stability on weak legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new US ambassador is a delicate point right now too. Gary Player or Charlize Theron might be good candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fund manager from Ninety One recently gave a good Trump statement: \u2018a rational decision made today based on irrational information, could prove to be a very irrational decision tomorrow.\u2019<\/strong> He went on to say that \u2018In markets, the best days tend to occur around the worst days.\u2019<\/strong> What he\u2019s implying, is that there are buying opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so everyone and the world is navigating the chaos. While we all spend our money in exactly the same places and feel nervous to invest because we want markets to become expensive again first. At least there is entertainment every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wax on\u2026 Wax\u2026. Sorry, Vat on\u2026 Vat off. Vat on\u2026 Vat off. \u2026for those of us old enough to have watched the Karate Kid\u2026 Taking a toll on the GNU, this is. Parties desperately seeking stability on weak legs. A new US ambassador is a delicate point right now too. Gary Player or Charlize Theron … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinmurray.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}