Economics Malaysia

Loanstreet has an article on the pros and cons of BR1M (excerpt): Will BR1M Destroy Malaysia from Within? Since BR1M was imple...

I’ve had multiple requests to comment on this, but haven’t had the time. To be honest, I didn’t read either side’s political manifesto too c...

This is something I had to explain a few times as well over the past couple of weeks, so again, committing this to writing. The Pakatan Ha...

A couple of things were raised last week that I want to address: Issue 1: The Difference between Operating and Developing Expenditure I’...

VoxEU has a new e-book out on the way forward for commodity producing economies (excerpt): Rethinking the macroeconomics of resource-...

The NEER and REER page has been updated , as has the Google Docs version. Summary A late CPI release by Taiwan caused this update to be ...

P. Gunasegaran demonstrates – yet again – that he doesn’t understand exchange rates (excerpt): How successive governments impoverish...

The Deputy PM thinks middlemen are the culprits for high prices (excerpt): Zahid: Higher prices of goods and services the work of ...

Nobody can deny inflation in food prices, and seafood is a major contributor to that. The biggest reason behind seafood price inflation is a...

The NEER and REER page has been updated , as has the Google Docs version. Summary This update is a little late for a few reasons. First,...

A quick note on yesterday’s GDP report. The date brought the growth numbers for 2017 to a gratifyingly satisfying conclusion (log annual cha...

My original take here . From a Tweetstorm I read this morning: So as someone who's covered monthy food budgets with food stamps let...