Economics Malaysia

I don’t usually comment on stocks but this one’s actually relevant (excerpt): MBSB shares jump on possible wage increase for civil se...

If we want to start producing Nobel Prize winners, we’d better start moving: The Road to Academic Excellence: Lessons of Experience ...

From the Business Times (excerpt): Govt revenue comes under the spotlight Kuala Lumpur: The government's revenue has not k...

From the Mole yesterday (excerpt): Activists riled with Nik Aziz's remarks KUALA LUMPUR: A human rights activist today des...

Pakatan Rakyat announced their alternative budget proposals yesterday but I haven’t had the chance to read it until just now. My first thoug...

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi of the Executive Board of the ECB explains the Triffin Dilemma (excerpt): The Triffin dilemma revisited T...

Starting next month, Indian nationals working in Malaysia must be paid a minimum RM800 per month (excerpt): New minimum wages for Ind...

…you might want to look at these: Average producer price increases over the last five years are at least double that of consumer price...

What’s going on in the US is dumb, what’s going on in Europe even dumber. In the presence of an outsize public debt, fiscal consolidation wo...

They must be having snowball fights in hell (excerpt): Paul Ryan, American Values and Corporatocracy My new book, The Price of ...

No much commentary on this one, just a good read for anyone interested in the subject (excerpt): The Tribal Dislike of John Hicks and...

Nick Rowe has a headache (excerpt): The Lucasian map is not the Hayekian territory In defence of Lucas '72. Take any...