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Doom or data?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/03/2025
» Re: "The economy is waiting to hit an iceberg", (Opinion, March 20) & "UBS boosts Thai stocks with upgrade", (Business, March 20).
World faces prospect of financial tumult
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 23/03/2023
» Today, I was supposed to present the third article, Managing Household Debt, in the series "Changing Thailand". In fact, I have finished drafting a payment reduction model which could reduce monthly debt payments by 4.6 times without the hair-cutting debt principal or requiring government financial support. But I will delay that article for now.
Deglobalisation breeds inflation
Oped, Shang-Jin Wei and Tao Wang, Published on 26/07/2022
» The return of high inflation in many developed economies seems to have surprised central banks and has quickly become people's leading economic worry. While monetary tightening is necessary, the role of structural factors warrants attention, too. Specifically, besides pandemic-related supply-chain disruptions and the energy and food-price shocks amplified by the Ukraine war, policymakers must also acknowledge more explicitly the inflationary consequences of deglobalisation.
Abe's death may give Japan scope to curb stimulus
Oped, Leika Kihara, Published on 14/07/2022
» The death of Shinzo Abe, namesake of Japan's "Abenomics" policy, makes any immediate challenge to his legacy highly unlikely but could eventually allow Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to phase out Abe's government spending and monetary stimulus.
Vaccine 'hope' plays on US stocks
Oped, Lewis Krauskopf, Published on 25/09/2020
» Optimism that vaccines are on the way to end the coronavirus pandemic has been a major factor in this year's US stock resurgence. That will face a critical test in coming weeks, as investors await clinical data on whether they actually work.