Economics Malaysia

No, I’m not addressing the government deficit. Rather this is about Malaysia’s (slowly) diminishing current account surplus. I wrote about i...

This came out about a month ago, but the subject is important enough that it’s worth revisiting (excerpt): The Malaysian economic ind...

I touched on this a few times before, but here’s David Graeber on sectoral balances and flows (excerpt): Britain is heading for anoth...

Overspending is fairly straightforward when it comes to households. It’s a little more nuanced with corporates, but its a lot more convolute...

I was going to write about this last week, but it got put on the back burner by the suspension of the fuel subsidy (excerpt): Ringgit...

From Jesse Colombo to the Dallas Fed (excerpt): Asia Recalls 1997 Crisis as Investors Await Fed Tapering The 2007–09 global fi...

I did a post about six months ago on an article in VoxEU ( link ) that evaluated exchange rate imbalances between the USD and Asian currenc...

A recent article by Cline & Williamson (2009)* on VoxEU.org investigates the state of play in terms of global currency misalignments, p...