Economy and Finance

Domestic Policy
Time for independent commission to investigate the MySejahtera debacle

Many assertions and claims by the Authorities are not sufficiently backed up, if not contradictory, while other critical issues remain unaddressed.
By Rais Hussin and Ameen Kamal

3 years ago
Economy and Finance
Provide various subsidies to counterbalance effects of raising the minimum wage and increased cost of living

Consider Introducing three-month grocery, food and petrol subsidies in vouchers among individuals and households in the lower M40 and the B40 income groups from April to June 2022.
By Amanda Yeo

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
Intense acrobatics surrounding MySejahtera deals

Never-ending acrobatics - Conflicting statements, questionable dealings, and controversial company ownerships cast uncertainty over the fate of personal data of millions of MySejahtera users
By Rais Hussin and Ameen Kamal

3 years ago
Domestic Policy
The necessity of a low interest rate environment – or why inflation-targeting is unhelpful

The impact of the oil spike was temporary (transitory) as compared to the impact of monetary tightening.
By Jason Loh

3 years ago
Economy and Finance
Johor Votes 2022 – rethinking voting

Johoreans should not only consider their local constituency interests, but state and nation also.
By Jason Loh

3 years ago
Economy and Finance
Reinventing Sovereign Wealth Fund: Let us be cleverer

There is an important void for Khazanah Nasional to fill in before it can start delivering impact for the nation.
By Rais Hussin and Margarita Peredaryenko

3 years ago
Economy and Finance
Saving Malaysia 101: Depower money in politics to attract sincere leaders

Regulating money and assets in political financing weaken the greatest enabler of power abuse and corruption—attracting only those sincere enough to serve the public. A fundamental step to put Malaysia on the right track.
By Ameen Kamal

3 years ago
Economy and Finance
EMIR Research response to DNB’s 5G voyage of semantics acrobatics

”Unanswerable” questions to DNB remain unanswered.
By Rais Hussin

3 years ago
Economy and Finance
Will anyone commit to enacting political financing laws?

Decades of failure to enact necessary reforms to meaningfully empower a law on political financing points to the firm strangle that money has on politicians from all sides.
By Ameen Kamal

3 years ago
Economy and Finance
EPF in a low interest rate environment

There’s simply no correlation between higher returns and higher rate of interest at all (when considering investment decisions).
By Jason Loh

3 years ago

Many assertions and claims by the Authorities are not sufficiently backed up, if not contradictory, while other critical issues remain unaddressed.

Consider Introducing three-month grocery, food and petrol subsidies in vouchers among individuals and households in the lower M40 and the B40 income groups from April to June 2022.

Never-ending acrobatics - Conflicting statements, questionable dealings, and controversial company ownerships cast uncertainty over the fate of personal data of millions of MySejahtera users

The impact of the oil spike was temporary (transitory) as compared to the impact of monetary tightening.

Johoreans should not only consider their local constituency interests, but state and nation also.

There is an important void for Khazanah Nasional to fill in before it can start delivering impact for the nation.

Regulating money and assets in political financing weaken the greatest enabler of power abuse and corruption—attracting only those sincere enough to serve the public. A fundamental step to put Malaysia on the right track.

”Unanswerable” questions to DNB remain unanswered.

Decades of failure to enact necessary reforms to meaningfully empower a law on political financing points to the firm strangle that money has on politicians from all sides.

There’s simply no correlation between higher returns and higher rate of interest at all (when considering investment decisions).