COMMENTARY
WHAT do Opec and the Federal Reserve have in common, other than being on the receiving end of angry tweets from President Donald Trump?
CUBICLE FILES
OVER drinks on a Friday night, a friend was recounting how shocked she was when her boss rejected a potential candidate for switching roles every two years.
AT Stanford University recently, I watched Professor Mark Duggan reluctantly ask US Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell his view on Modern Monetary Theory. MMT has attracted scathing criticism from...
THE BOTTOM LINE
IT is difficult to forecast when the next global economic recession will happen. It is much easier to predict its severity.
EDITORIAL
GIVEN the long-running, wide-ranging discussions on inequality that swept Singapore last year, one might initially have been surprised at the topic's absence from this year's Budget speech...
"I AM not sure what it is, but the guy has that something, that charisma, and I almost feel hypnotised by him." That was how a friend - a lawyer and veteran Democratic politico (and I...
COMMENTARY
THE carefully-crafted image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an economic reformer who would power the Indian economy to new heights is fading. Slowing GDP growth, industrial decline, sputtering...
COMMENTARY
Japan is the chair of G20 this year, under the established system of annual rotation of chairmanship among member countries. Since its phenomenal success in securing global cooperation that...
COMMENTARY
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) first-ever enforcement report lifts the veil on certain key aspects of how it polices the financial markets under its charge, and is a welcome...
TODAY, as more than half the world's population live in cities, Asia is expecting unprecedented growth. By 2030, megacities of 10 million inhabitants or more will be located primarily in Asia. ...
THE BOTTOM LINE
THE next global downturn may still be a little way off. The chances that the North Atlantic as a whole will be in recession a year from now have fallen to about one in four. German growth may well be...
