Economics Malaysia

Students at Manchester University want more than dogma (excerpt): Economics students aim to tear up free-market syllabus Und...

One of the measures taken in Budget 2014 is a hike in RPGT, effective January 1, 2014: Disposal Current Compan...

Well, its in the books now – metaphorically speaking that is, because it technically still has to pass Parliament. First a look at the hea...

I’m going to be late with my 2014 Budget assessment because of work deadlines on other things. Even this post will be a bare bones look at S...

As usual, I’m going to try live-blogging the budget announcement, commenting on things as and when they are announced. The PM is scheduled t...

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

It’s now out, you can download it here . Quick impressions: It’s taken them a while, but this is a much better produced document, wit...

Newly minted Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller is on Project Syndicate talking about the debt to GDP ratio (excerpt): Debt and Delusion ...

I fortuitously came across this while looking at something else: What does the Big Mac say about Euro Area adjustment? The Big...

Quoting David Beckworth quoting Barry Ritholtz (excerpt): Why Counterfactual Thinking Is Important I recently made the case tha...

Employment in August rose by 173k (‘000): Some of the increase was due to a lot more people looking for work and finding it (log annual ...

Hafiz Noor Shams on FTAs, external trade, and the TPPA (excerpt): [2713] Is Bantah TPPA right about FTA causing trade balance to dete...