household debt

Lower car prices would disproportionately help lower-income households.

People are wealthier because they own homes where prices have gone up.

Debt serves a crucial economic function.

The pandemic has, without question, brought about a sea change, in terms of people’s behaviours and, notably, policies.

The economic and health crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic will have quite some ways to go. “We are not at the beginning of the end,” says Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Why are many Malaysians finding homes beyond their reach, despite low interest rates?

The Covid-19 crisis is exposing still more flaws in our economic structures, not least the increasing precarity of work, owing to the rise of the gig economy and a decades-long deterioration of workers’ bargaining power.

SINGAPORE (Dec 4): Central bankers are starting to see promising results from one of the recent additions to their monetary policy toolbox.

(June 9): Singapore’s economy may be picking up, but consumers aren’t feeling it. 

SINGAPORE (Oct 6): Asean banks are facing slower GDP growth, a weaker operating environment and increasing downside risks – but most should have adequate loss-absorption buffers to support their current ratings, says Fitch Ratings.