Modern Monetary Theory
Reading Time: 7 minutes Is Printing Money Actually Okay? To cushion the blows of the coronavirus pandemic, many nations resorted to “printing money”, to stimulate the economy. Printing Money: A more colloquial term for expansionary monetary policy, where central banks buy up securities (stocks, bonds) from the open market. When central banks do this, they […]
Soda Tax-Route to Healthier Malaysia
After the introduction of Sales and Services Tax (SST) on September 1, 2018, the idea of implementing a brand new tax caught the attention of Malaysians. The mystery tax that the Malaysian government is going to implement is the famous soda tax or sugary drink tax which has already been imposed in half of the […]