Economics Malaysia

So, I’ve finally sat down to read through Pakatan Harapan’s alternative budget for 2018. There are some good ideas here, and a fair share of...

The best laid plans of mice and men… I was going to put up an analysis of Budget 2016 the day after the budget, but as luck would have it,...

The Monetary Policy Committee will be meeting this Thursday and the consensus opinion is that there won’t be any change. I don’t think so ei...

These are some short notes taken from a presentation I gave last week: Supply side issues Global oversupply is only likely to ease by...

I’ve maintained that the decline in the Ringgit is largely a function of the decline in global oil prices. Here’s some proof (or to be more...

There’s quite a bit of gloom in the air these last few weeks. The plunge in oil and other commodity prices, capital pulling out of emerging ...

Last week’s trade numbers (released Friday) show the same bounce that affected industrial production (log annual and monthly changes; season...

I was alerted to this yesterday by a reporter. Sometimes I wonder…do our politicians do any fact checking at all, or do they just pluck figu...

I don’t usually comment on political issues, but I came across an interesting research paper that ties in directly to the issue at hand. Los...