Price control and shortages are two sides of the same coin.

Reposting!

Don’t know much about this but pretty sure money printing is involved.

The Arcitect behind the Indian economic miracle. RIP.

Price control madness is not limited to one person or party. This is from March 2015.

Here comes the license Raj.

Just to reiterate that this is a widespread issue. Not restricted to Sri Lanka.

In 2021 the money supply was increased by a remarkable 35% allegedly based on a false hypothesis called “Modern Monetary Theory” (MMT) which is neither “modern” nor a “theory”. - Economic policy lessons for a new Sri Lanka, Dr HN Thenuwara (2025)

2 years ago, I moved my entire life to Cyprus to escape Germany's 50% tax rate. It was the most expensive "money-saving" decision I've ever made. Here's 21 brutal realities of tax haven living (that nobody warns you about):

Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.” Applying this to markets, one might say: “Markets are the worst form of economic organization, except for all the others that have been tried.”

UPDATED with latest Duties: We did a Vehicle Import Cost Calculator! With the latest government updates, our Calculator helps you estimate the duties and levies imposed on importing a vehicle, post import ban! Try it now! -> cal.lk/vehicle-cost-c…

It's becoming clearer and clearer that we're looking at a seismic shift in the US's relationship with the world, between: 1) The US dismantling its foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID 👇) 2) Marco Rubio stating that we're now in a multipolar world with "multi-great

Protectionism isn’t just bad policy—it’s a system of legalized plunder.

Don’t fully understand what he is saying but know him enough to know that this warning should not be ignored. economynext.com/sri-lankas-cen…

IMF Finance & Development Magazine latest issue, article by Anne O. Krueger on sovereign debt architecture: "There must be a stronger arrangement (beyond the incentives of the IMF’s lending into arrears policies) under which a holdout sovereign creditor will not receive ..."

The focus should be on the policies and ideally they should become national consensus.

While we ponder on Trump tariffs, we need to also ponder on all those local industrialist who lobbied (and got) massive tariff protection over the years.

Happy Easter to all those experts who calculated the trillions of losses the EPF made. economynext.com/sri-lanka-epf-…

Weaponizing the law is worse than breaking the law!

Concerned about the detention of former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickramasinghe on what, on the face of it, seem trivial charges. His health issues have already seen him taken to the prison hospital. I call on the government of Sri Lanka -- while fully respecting that this is