Economics Malaysia

I’ve done this exercise once before (see here ), but this way is probably a lot more intuitive for most people. The TL:DR version – the Ring...

One of the big themes over the past year has been the strength of the US Dollar, which has appreciated against currencies and commodities si...

I hadn’t touched a computer since last Friday, so I only heard the news Monday morning. While S&P’s move was a bit of a surprise, coming...

I realized a couple of days ago that I hadn’t done an update on the Ringgit for quite some time. As I got started I remembered why – out of ...

There has been a lot of movement on the currency front over the last year or so. Here's the trends against the G3 currencies (index move...

As a quick follow-up to my last post, the BEA last night posted Febuary data on US international trade. There's been a marked improveme...

Dani Rodrik posts a reply from the ILO on monitoring global stimulus plans: "We at the International Labour Organization (ILO) have be...