We are on a joy ride but we have got to be very careful. We have got benign inflation, but we have also got rising private spending and a growing current account deficit.

If the rand breaks convincingly through R6 to the dollar, the Reserve Bank may decide to cut.

There is no interruption to aggressive demand and consumers are still being supported by the low price and the low borrowing cost environment. This means interest rates could remain flat for a while.

Look at it! Look at it, damn you! This is the result of your consistent, persistent, grinding, impoverishing inflation, you despicable loathsome morons!

It looks as though core inflation is back. We have the core CPI now growing at an average monthly rate of roughly 0.3 percent thus far in 2004. That adds up to a rate hike happening sooner rather than later.

It looks as though core inflation is back, ... We have the core CPI now growing at an average monthly rate of roughly 0.3 percent thus far in 2004. That adds up to a rate hike happening sooner rather than later.