Economics Malaysia

Despite budget cutbacks and a laundry list of statistics to compile, DOS has managed to launch some new data extraction and visualisation to...

I was at the launch ceremony at Khazanah Research yesterday, and while the report doesn’t present anything new, it compiles all the various ...

A fast one (seems like all I have time for these days are fast ones), on contingent liabilities (excerpt): Analysts say Govt’s contin...

On Bloomberg last week (excerpt): Bloated Malaysia Civil Service Presents Headache for Najib ...Malaysia’s civil service emplo...

I remember getting into a forum argument on this issue more than a decade back (excerpt): Opinion: Think nothing is made in America? ...

At the risk of getting a phone call from across the road, here’s what I think of last week’s 25bp OPR cut: 1. Surprise! One of the reaso...

In a move that caught nearly everyone looking the other way, the MPC cu the OPR by 25bp yesterday (as if you could have missed this bit of n...

First of all, Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir dan Batin to all. I’m back from my annual Ramadhan break, and fully determined to blog more regu...

Throwing this out there because this is a narrative that really ought to change: In the runup to BNM’s latest MPC, there was a lot of mark...

This has been one of the most widely read recent columns on VoxEU – over 65,000 hits in barely two weeks (excerpt): What’s your (sur)...

WARNING: Gold bugs beware. Existential crisis ahead:

You’re nearly there Tan Sri, just a little bit further (excerpt; emphasis mine): The alchemy of money BY ANDREW SHENG ...