Economics Malaysia

This has been the hot button topic of the year, pretty much everywhere around the globe. Inflation has accelerated in many countries, but at...

It’s been an awfully long time since I wrote a post. There have been a lot of reasons for the hiatus, both professionally as well as persona...

A couple of things here: Malaysian inflation will zoom this year. No, really, for real! Uh, no, not really. What’s with the two ...

In case you missed it, last month’s CPI numbers from DOS came with some changes. First, the basket weights and components were upda...

I’m back from my usual Ramadhan blogging break, and my, aren’t there lots of things to comment on. This will be a kind of omnibus blog post,...

Again, a couple of weeks late, but this is interesting enough to talk about, even at this late date. With GST implemented in April, you ca...

I’m back from my CNY break, and I hope everyone is back home safe and sound at this beginning of the Year of the Goat. Last week’s inflati...

With the (slight) fall in petrol prices, the aggregate price level moved a little lower in December (log annual and monthly changes):

Prices in August took another blip upwards (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100):

Wednesday’s inflation report saw the CPI rising by 3.2% (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100):

I’m back from my usual Ramadhan blogging sabbatical. It’s been a bittersweet month – the economy is chugging along better than I ever hoped ...

Inflation? What inflation? (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100): The annual rate of increase across all three of my inflation meas...

The CPI numbers for April were released late on Wednesday, and they point to benign inflationary pressure (log annual and monthly changes; 2...

March is the first month that we can see the impact on inflation from all those subsidy cuts and rate hikes in the last six months. It’s als...

Question: Has there been an increase in inflationary pressure in the last few months? Question: Has weakness in the Ringgit contributed to...

Consumer prices rose 3.2% in log terms in December (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100):

Consumer prices in November (released last Wednesday) has continued to accelerate (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100):

October consumer prices accelerated slightly in October (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100):

I’m going to be late with my 2014 Budget assessment because of work deadlines on other things. Even this post will be a bare bones look at S...

Consumer price inflation for August was released a couple of days ago (log annual and monthly changes):