The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Towers, Birds, and Banking
In this week's ASEAN weekly offering I include a "Bonus Insight" with Bank Central Asia Tbk Pt (BBCA IJ) from my visit to Jakarta last week. Please...
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Money Matters: The Failure of Inflation Targeting and the Implications for the Cost of Capital.
Advocates of inflation targeting claim that central banks can control prices through monetary policy and that by targeting a relatively low and...
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US Healthcare Overhaul Stumbling, Singapore Cyclical Rally Looking Premature
The Republican replacement for ‘Obamacare’ has been announced and looks an incoherent mess – resurgent healthcare inflation will be a drag on...
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The Week That Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma (Part 2) - Macet=Traffic Jam
For this week's ASEAN Weekly, created in the midst of Jakarta "Macet", I interviewed Insight Provider and Thai guru Athaporn Arayasantiparb to...
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The Week That Was in Asean@Smartkarma - Sweet Deals, Seaweeds and Shifting Patient Flows
In this week's ASEAN Weekly, I decided to fill in for the series as I suspect Angus Mackintosh is collecting good stories in J-town but got stuck...
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