There are a lot of opinions going around about the latest set-up by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the National Economic Action Council (NEAC). There’s one little part of it that is of specific interest to me as it has a relevant connection to classic Hayek. And I intend
It is always worrying when governments and academics raise a hue and cry about how inequality is rising and something or anything must be done to stop it. This is the idea behind the news headline “Outwardly rich, inwardly poor” in a local paper recently. Well, I read and thought,
The drugs business has certain significant characteristics. The illegality is an obvious starting point and disputes between the players are settled with violence, not lawyers. As several news reports recently show, marijuana business seems to be much like any other business. And so we have several groups and politicians including
Opec has managed to come to agreement to extend cuts in production quotas among its various members. Those who are not formal members such as Malaysia also joined in the cuts for the next six months which ends in June this year. This brings us to a statement issued by
There was a piece up over at The Star on Jan 15, which Philip Wong of the Sarawak Institute for Public Affairs had an interesting view about how abundance and excesses of fruits from durians to rambutans, langsat, mangosteen and bananas, somehow, is not efficiently managed and distributed thus how
We should both note and celebrate when the political process tells us something that is actually true, which is rare. So it is with this news report concerning Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin. “There is a lot of plastic waste; that is why we
We should both note and celebrate when the political process tells us something that is actually true, which is rare. So it is with this news report from Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration that Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment Minister, Yeo Bee Yin. “There is a lot of plastic
An economic think tank, Khazanah Research Institute (KRIS) has a new study available and it can be found in Chapter 2: The Malaysian Workforce: A Changing Landscape, The State of Households 2018: Different Realities which shows that foreign workers have a limited impact on wages and employment in Malaysia. And
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