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  • OPINION

    Taste of inflation from a reliable sauce

    Roger Crutchley, Published on 03/12/2023

    » I am not sure where Bangkok stands in the list of most expensive cities released by the Economist this week. Singapore and Zurich top the table but judging from recent visits to the supermarket, Bangkok must be racing up the inflation charts.

  • OPINION

    Financial crisis looms over Thailand

    Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 25/01/2024

    » The definition of an "economic crisis" is much debated in Thailand. This is because one of the requirements for enacting the emergency fiscal borrowing decree is that the economy must be in crisis.

  • OPINION

    Don't rely on last year's trends for global economy

    Oped, Published on 16/01/2024

    » Behavioural economists have popularised the term "recency bias" to describe our tendency to be disproportionately influenced by the latest events compared to earlier ones. Could this cognitive phenomenon explain why numerous analysts have a rather optimistic tilt for the world economy in 2024? Or are there really positive trends counterbalancing the obvious and mounting challenges to global growth?

  • OPINION

    Why so unpatriotic?

    News, Published on 12/01/2024

    » Re: "Please Come Back", (Editorial Cartoon, Jan 11).

  • OPINION

    Globalisation: a well-managed decline required

    Oped, Published on 02/06/2022

    » The World Economic Forum's first meeting in more than two years was markedly different from the many previous Davos conferences that I have attended since 1995. It was not just that the bright snow and clear skies of January were replaced by bare ski slopes and a gloomy May drizzle. Rather, it was that a forum traditionally committed to championing globalisation was primarily concerned with globalisation's failures: broken supply chains, food- and energy-price inflation, and an intellectual-property (IP) regime that left billions without Covid-19 vaccines just so that a few drug companies could earn billions in extra profits.

  • OPINION

    Soldiers can raise pigs

    News, Postbag, Published on 30/01/2022

    » Re: "Govt mulls pork imports to reduce inflation," (BP, Jan 18) and "How high will the cost of pork soar?,"(BP, Jan 25).

  • OPINION

    Riots' deja vu raises the stakes

    News, Published on 04/07/2023

    » A teenager killed by police in a Paris suburb. A wave of anger that morphs into widespread rioting and opportunistic looting. A tough law-and-order response followed by an appeal for unity and calm -- and a political call for action that fades over time.

  • OPINION

    Lame excuses

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/03/2023

    » Re: "Parties buck EC poll pact", (BP, March 30).

  • OPINION

    PM2.5 nightmares

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/03/2023

    » Re: "PM2.5: Endless deja vu in Thailand", (Opinion, March 12).

  • OPINION

    Living in La La Land

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/02/2023

    » Re: "Poll seen sparking spending spree", (Business, Feb 23).

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