Stand Up! Business

Investment banker Mark Barnes and Business Maverick editor Tim Cohen unwrap the news.A new edition of StandUp!Business midweek, every week.

Tariffs have two "f"s
Apr 15, 2025 – 00:19:47
My f** Marelize!
Apr 7, 2025 – 00:20:57
The nappy law of politicians and the futility of tariff wars
Apr 1, 2025 – 00:20:56
What is the (diplomatic) state of brand SA?
Mar 24, 2025 – 00:20:29
SA sources of capital are (expletive deleted)
Mar 17, 2025 – 00:22:14
We are 100 podcasts old, but let's have a budget for the youth
Mar 10, 2025 – 00:20:45
The new world (dis)order: is that an iceberg we see?
Mar 3, 2025 – 00:19:53
What’s brewing in that VAT?
Feb 24, 2025 – 00:20:11
Everybody’s war and nobody's budget.
Feb 18, 2025 – 00:19:49
Legalise artisanal mining, leave for the USA, and stealing without a conscience
Feb 11, 2025 – 00:21:07
Exciting Deep Seek, middling mining, boring repairs and maintenance
Feb 4, 2025 – 00:18:34
Is there enough common ground in GNU in the year of the snake?
Jan 27, 2025 – 00:19:08
Playing the Trump card - again. And the matric results ... degrees of success.
Jan 21, 2025 – 00:20:33
The morality of yachts and the ANC's January 8th statement
Jan 14, 2025 – 00:19:02
The certainty of uncertainty. And numbers ... big numbers
Jan 7, 2025 – 00:21:19
The year of elections ends mixed, like the best cocktails. Cheers!
Dec 10, 2024 – 00:20:59
Presidential powers are just another brick in the wall
Dec 2, 2024 – 00:21:45
Creating money and the value of bananas
Nov 26, 2024 – 00:21:40
Should we rent out Simonstown for bitcoin?
Nov 19, 2024 – 00:19:47
Money buys power; will PPP’s really work? + … ?
Nov 11, 2024 – 00:22:48
Elections, elections everywhere: change is gonna come, organised crime and the underground economy.
Nov 4, 2024 – 00:18:35
The medium term budget per capita, D-day for the USA
Oct 28, 2024 – 00:20:06
LIVE RECORDING: The future, the election and the rugby
Oct 22, 2024 – 00:23:34
Springboks for sale; the forces of nature and technology
Oct 15, 2024 – 00:19:26
Should the PIC split, and the world unite?
Oct 8, 2024 – 00:19:52
Chickens and China ...
Sep 30, 2024 – 00:20:35
Diamonds, the weather, municipalities: the challenge of adapting to change
Sep 23, 2024 – 00:22:02
Our pet subject: the interesting things about interest rates
Sep 16, 2024 – 00:19:19
Financial skullduggery and ineptitude from VBS, to the construction mafia to Transnet.
Sep 10, 2024 – 00:19:46
The magic of Trillion $ companies and a couple of pots
Sep 2, 2024 – 00:16:38
No consensus on the census | Reviving Joburg city centre | the ROI of university courses
Aug 26, 2024 – 00:18:45
When will the political merry-go-round settle | Is working from home working
Aug 19, 2024 – 00:19:27
Are government and business NBF’s: the real numbers about the olympics
Aug 12, 2024 – 00:20:03
Hundred metre dash | Volatility | Crowd wisdom
Aug 6, 2024 – 00:23:17
Olympics, the GNU starts well and the retailers race for market share
Jul 29, 2024 – 00:19:06
Biden takes our advice, SA's cities, and handbags at dawn
Jul 25, 2024 – 00:22:19
Sport, success, and succession
Jul 15, 2024 – 00:18:31
Right! Let's go left.
Jul 8, 2024 – 00:19:06
The art, culture and sport of cabinet making
Jul 1, 2024 – 00:18:53
When is a GNU not a GNU?
Jun 25, 2024 – 00:18:22
Is democracy working for the old and the young?
Jun 17, 2024 – 00:18:49
What should we do about the Gnu. And the lipstick index.
Jun 11, 2024 – 00:19:30
Democracy works, now we need to.
Jun 3, 2024 – 00:22:18
The Vote; the future of family empires; government starts selling SOE’s
May 28, 2024 – 00:18:50
Lowest common denominator outcomes, healthcare, and golden oldies
May 22, 2024 – 00:18:45
Loadshedding solved? (true or false); pass the baton not the buck; new body parts going cheap
May 14, 2024 – 00:20:44
Why are we so wet; disinvestment blues, school-boy science. (Zero election talk!)
May 8, 2024 – 00:20:56
Electricity supply? (yawn); Elections? (yawn); and the Art of investment
May 1, 2024 – 00:22:15
Another bank, really? SA's electricity miracle: and what eats beetles?
Apr 23, 2024 – 00:21:56
The costs of war; who wants to be a politician; does SA have too many malls?
Apr 18, 2024 – 00:19:48