Economics Malaysia

Yesterday’s MPC statement was as bland as they come, until the very last line: Monetary Policy Statement At the Monetary Policy...

Not something to be proud of – Global Financial Integrity released a report yesterday on capital outflows from developing countries, and Mal...

The consensus is pretty unanimous on this issue – there’s no call for BNM to hike interest rates yet. It’s only when we get into the second ...

Hot of the press at the NBER (abstract; emphasis added): Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Empirical studies of bilater...

More and more, in a globalised world with many trade linkages, the evidence suggests that the macroeconomic orthodoxy of the past thirty-for...

Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun (for those not familiar with Bahasa Malaysia, the title reads “Gold and Silver”). The Perak state governmen...

I’m still somewhat bemused that people ascribe all kinds of bad things things to the Fed’s quantitative easing. So far hyperinflation hasn’t...

Too good to last – October’s bumper increase in employment wasn’t sustained (‘000):

The report’s been out a couple of days now, and it’s all about the pain (log annual and monthly changes; 2000=100):

I was invited to this public lecture yesterday (and would have loved to have gone), but couldn’t make it: Islamic Gold Dinar: Myths ...

From this weekend’s The Star: Is 2050 our next big target? ...HSBC Bank plc issued the report, The World in 2050: Quantifying ...

I feel a little guilty because I’ve been planning this post for a while now but just haven’t got round to it. To make that up, I’m jumping s...