Economics Malaysia

Last week, Banco de Mexico and the Mexican government delivered a double whammy to the financial markets (excerpt): Mexico Battles Emerg...

I’ve been reworking my MYR exchange rate indexes, with the idea that I might put them out as a public service. There’s no official effecti...

The treaty document has been out for a couple of months now, and the treaty itself was signed last week. But there's still plenty of op...

From the Malaysian Insider (excerpt): Scandals, weak ringgit spurring Malaysians abroad to cash out EPF funds Some Malaysians are mak...

The measure is on hold at the moment, but I want to put forward my thought process on the subject. The main debating points are obvious -...

Assume you have 20 marbles. I take 4 and borrow 1 from you, for a total of 5. I then give back 5 to you. How many marbles do you have? ...

This past week, I met up with a senior official at MOF, and he surprised me by supporting a resumption of duty on petrol (via GST). Relief ...

Recently, KS Jomo has been in the headlines on his criticisms about the TPPA (e.g. here ), or more specifically, the models that showed tha...

From a Bloomberg editorial this weekend (excerpt): Mexico's Soda Tax Success One of the world’s highest soda taxes appears...

When I read the headline, I thought the article would be about the difficulty of finding a return in the current low yield environment. It ...

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here’s some graphs showing some of the other interesting data from the distribution of income accounts....

The question of the household savings rate has come up a few times in the last few weeks, so I thought I might as well set out the data and ...