Daily round-up, Sep 23: Hong Kong scraps COVID-19 hotel quarantine; DBS, UOB temporarily remove fixed rate home loans

Let’s get you up to speed with the day’s stories. Hong Kong will end mandatory hotel quarantine from Monday (Sep 26).  All international arrivals will be able to return to the accommodation of their choice but will have to self-monitor for three days after entering the city. During that period, they willContinue Reading

The mechanics of recession, inflation

How do they actually it?   Experts speak metaphorically when they say, as I furthermore sometimes do, present problems with recession/inflation (r/i) are due to governments’ policy of printing too much money. As well, when they discuss the “cure. ” they blithely speak about raising the eye rate, as if this kind of action is equivalent to turning down some […]

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Indonesia resumes penalising exporters that break repatriation rules

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s central bank offers reinstated rules to sanction natural resources exporters that do not receive their earnings through domestic banks, deputy governor Juda Agung said upon Thursday (Sep 22). Indonesia in 2019 issued rules requiring organic resource exporters to put their earnings in the domestic banking system, with theContinue Reading