https://blog.rumarion.com/Recent content in 🌸 Welcome to my blog 🌸 on Roma writes thingsHugoen© 2026 Ritisha Roma. All rights reserved.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:54:00 +0800https://blog.rumarion.com/posts/essays/productivity_paradox/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:54:00 +0800https://blog.rumarion.com/posts/essays/productivity_paradox/<p>Dr Goh Keng Swee built Singapore&rsquo;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.</p>https://blog.rumarion.com/posts/essays/zimbabwe/Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:59:00 +0800https://blog.rumarion.com/posts/essays/zimbabwe/<p><em>Zimbabwe&rsquo;s central bank has finally found something real to stand behind its currency. Its citizens are still paying in dollars.</em></p>https://blog.rumarion.com/posts/essays/el_salvador/Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:57:00 +0800https://blog.rumarion.com/posts/essays/el_salvador/<p><em>In El Salvador, Nayib Bukele has emptied the streets and filled the prisons. The harder question is which of those is reversible.</em></p>https://blog.rumarion.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.rumarion.com/about/