Tim Cohen

What does it mean for you and your investments that global public sector debt has now breached the $100-trillion mark? Listen (or watch!) on our weekly ListenUP! podcast.

There is a potential irony in South Africa’s now-withdrawn draft artificial intelligence policy, and it may not be the

Why are we are surrounded by the tyranny of mediocrity?

Merchant banker Mark Barnes and journalist Tim Cohen discuss changes galore with Special Guest! the leader of RizeMzanzi and chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts Songezo Zibi.

I know this qualifies as an opera scored for the world’s smallest violin, but it really is tough being

Can the DA be South Africa’s largest party?Merchant banker Mark Barnes and journalist Tim Cohen discuss this question, only somewhat cynically, with special guest Ryan Coetzee.

One of the biggest problems with how history is taught at school is that it's very backward looking. Seriously. 

What will the effects and consequences be for the conflicts developing in the Middle East? Big questions!

Why has assassination has wandered back into respectability - if it actually has.

Investment banker Mark Barnes and Currency’s Tim Cohen. They gallop through the week’s events, offering thoughts, opinions, and perspectives on South African and international affairs.

If its true that life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards, why is South African so stuck in the past?

There is an old proverb that a fish rots from the head. It stands in as a wonderfully economical political