Economics Malaysia

Me, pontificating on the Ringgit and BNM’s new measures, over the past week: Your browser does not support native audio, but you can down...

Imagine you have a widget to sell, something that helps pick apples. You offer the widget to a bunch of apple farmers, who think, yes, very ...

The NEER and REER page has been updated . Summary Since there’s a lot of interest in exchange rate movements this past few weeks, I’ve a...

The NEER and REER page has been updated . Summary Since the last update in August, both broad indexes have slowly declined, and are now ...

I’m still hearing people talking about the 1MDB effect on the Ringgit. Here’s what I’ve worked out:

GDP Report Surprisingly strong at 4.3% yoy…or may be not. Iwas expecting a pickup as we had the minimum wage revision, civil service pay r...

My latest (excerpt): Challenges of a pension system ONE aspect of an ageing society is obvious to everyone – care for the elde...

Today’s the first chance I’ve had to sit down and really think about the budget, past the first impressions we all got on Friday. Overall,...

…but not in the usual way. I’ll be running around like a headless chicken for most of today (apologies to all headless chickens, by the way)...

It’s that time of the year again! I’m not going to comment extensively about the Alternative Budget (you can download it here ), especiall...

I had some input into an article the Malay Mail published last month: Is there really a gap between the official inflation rate and r...

Came across this tweet this morning: The mother of all bubbles. pic.twitter.com/2sQxLySwwX — David Andolfatto (@dandolfa) October 4, 2016 ...