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Singapore’s Productivity Paradox: Decline Masked as Stability
Dr Goh Keng Swee built Singapore’s growth model, then warned in 1972 that it would eventually fail us in three specific ways that have already arrived. So we have an economy that keeps growing while Singaporeans keep feeling worse off. I wrote this to trace how we got here, why GDP has stopped telling us the truth, and what an honest restructuring would actually require.
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13 mins
Faith You Cannot Print
Zimbabwe’s central bank has finally found something real to stand behind its currency. Its citizens are still paying in dollars.
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743 words·
4 mins
The Price of Quiet Streets
In El Salvador, Nayib Bukele has emptied the streets and filled the prisons. The harder question is which of those is reversible.
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609 words·
3 mins