Aggressive US foreign policy
Air travel isn’t much fun these days, what with searches, pat-downs, holdups, crowds and queues, so it’s good when sometimes you can have a laugh while travelling, which I did…
Protectionism as policy
President Donald Trump’s recent tariff policy is grounded in a fundamental misunderstanding of international trade economics, specifically the erroneous belief that bilateral trade deficits inherently represent unfair exploitation. Driven by…
MPC clearly in a dilemma about how to respond to policy rate question
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is set to announce its monetary policy decision today. Over the past six reviews, the central bank has slashed interest rates by a cumulative…
Policy rate caution
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and the current economic team of the government of Pakistan must stop hiding behind a veil of overly cautious monetary policies. The latest Monetary…
Need for a more balanced policy emphasis by Pakistan and Argentina
Pakistan and Argentina have somewhat similar macroeconomic, and growth consequences, whereby although the extent of inflation rate was much more in the case of Argentina, yet both countries practiced significantly…
Foreign policy under Trump 2.0
WHAT will US foreign policy look like under Donald Trump 2.0? Governments and people across the world have already started assessing this as the former president appears increasingly likely to…
A bolder policy framework
AS large parts of the economy grind into recessionary conditions, the clamour for policy focus on growth is increasing. However, the government’s policy mix is constrained under an IMF-led stabilisation…
Japan’s yen feels the heat from hard-line BOJ policy
Japan’s yen, long favoured as a safe-haven and funding currency, has in recent weeks become so enmeshed in market speculation over central bank policy that Wednesday’s decision to retain the…
‘Heat economic policy’
It is, indeed, important that Pakistan should continue to deal with its macroeconomic and growth challenges of the traditional nature, reducing twin deficits, avoiding stagflation, reforming state-owned enterprises, and fixing…
Japan’s policymakers hold fire as yen enters intervention range
As the yen slid past 145 per dollar with barely a murmur from Japanese policymakers during recent days, suspicion grew that they won’t be as quick to order intervention as…
