Opinion

SRI LANKA LEGISLATORS SHOULD DENY GOAL INDEPENDENCE TO THE CENTRAL BANK

If parliament rubber stamps a 4-6% inflation target, which has demonstrably failed.

SRI LANKA MACROECONOMISTS IGNORE SOUND MONEY, POLITICIANS, PEOPLE PAY THE PRICE

Best advice from the economic architect of Singapore discarded in favour of depreciation, flexible regimes.

SRI LANKA'S 'EXPORT ORIENTED' POSTER-CHILD VIETNAM IN CURRENCY TROUBLE

Non-rules based flexible exchange rate policy and their inevitable consequences.

SRI LANKA'S MOST URGENT TASK IS TO RESTORE MONETARY STABILITY

Restoration of a working peg or float will bring down interest rates

SRI LANKA ON THE FASTRACK TO KOREA PATH, MERCANTILISTS GET THEIR WISH

A central banker will never admit to their mistakes, not only in Sri Lanka but anywhere in the world, but will use big words to bamboozle the helpless public, using the same rhetoric used by Western Mercantilists, and escape accountability

CENTRAL BANK GOVERNORS HAVE TO BE RESTRAINED BY LAW, NOT GIVEN MORE INDEPENDENCE

The absolute discretion to print money through flexible inflation targeting cum output gap targeting has to be restrained by law

SRI LANKA HAS TO WORK FAST TO CONTAIN MULTIPLE DEFAULTS AS TANZI BITES.

Sri Lanka has to work quickly to establish a clean float and contain defaults on multiple defaults that can be triggered if foreign exchange shortages persist from low policy rates and deadly surrender requirements.

SRI LANKA SHOULD HIKE RATES BEFORE A FLOAT

A rate hike and float will end forex shortages in a short time

PARALLEL DOLLARIZATION CAN REDUCE RATE SPIRAL, MELTDOWN FALLOUT

Exporters, hotels, and forex earners should be allowed to pay taxes and settle utility bills in US dollars.

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IS SRI LANKA STABILIZING, OR WILL THE RUN ON THE CENTRAL BANK AND TREASURY CONTINUE?

A Bellwether FAQ on the dangerous lack of note-issue banking know-how

The Price Signal: A FOREIGN DEBT ORGY DRIVEN BY CASCADING POLICY ERRORS

How Sri Lanka's IMF-backed 'Young Plan' led to a foreign debt death spiral

Action Needed to Avert Monetary Meltdown: Bellwether

The Consumer Affairs Authority and National Medicinal Drugs Authority can create great hardships and shortages through price controls

SRI LANKA FOREX SHORTAGES NOT CAUSED BY IMPORTS, THE PROBLEM IS CB-REFINANCED CREDIT

Current monetary troubles stem from several stimulus misconceptions and dangerous ideologies which have caused the same problems in countries at war and also at peace

Sri lanka to pick losers as omniscient elites drive extreme interventionism with ban-nomics

The government has banned a series of items from fertilizer to plastics giving policy shocks from farming to retail

Sri Lanka in crisis from spurious Keynesian beliefs on external deficits and MMT

Why are Mercantilists (who go by the label economists in Sri Lanka) so obsessed with the current account deficit?

Ending state Failure

Sri Lanka has to boost confidence and fix monetary instability to stabilise finances
BY BELLWETHER

Facing 2021 with reckless MMT, stimulus mania

Sri Lanka rushing into an economic battle ground of its own making BY BELLWETHER

WHY SRI LANKA CANNOT BE A SINGAPORE: A CHIEF FESTUS BUDGET

Competition is the key to efficiency, not protection

CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: WHY SRI LANKA CANNOT BE A VIETNAM

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed other policy development and ideological weaknesses that are preventing Sri Lanka from emulating the successes in the region

Constitution making in Sri Lanka: how the popular vote destroys freedom and prosperity

An independent judiciary, a parliament that makes laws governed by the rules of natural justice and constitutional restraint prevent one person, or the overall state, from becoming too powerful: this is the key to freedom

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