My Financial Thoughts

I had a taste of pumping in the RON 95 fuel yesterday after its price change last week.
After driving a few kilometres, I cannot help but feel that my car is not as powerful as before. Now, this coming from me can only be alarming because I usually cannot feel these things. Most of the [...]

Today’s The Sun had this piece of news on its front page. The subsidies which the government is currently providing for flour, sugar and bread will likely not be extended post 2009.
As a result of this, flour which is currently priced at RM1.35/kg will likely cost RM2/kg. Coarse and fine sugar will each cost RM2.05/kg [...]

The Department of Statistics will release the inflation rate for April tomorrow.
Today, Business Times polled an average of 3.27 as the expected inflation rate for April 2009.
It reported that the decline in fuel prices has started to kick-in and we should all be expecting lower prices in the months to come.
However, one will question what [...]

Today I had this “Pan Mee” at Mid Valley for dinner. I paid RM6.85 for it, including taxes, which is fine, except that the price has gone up AND the quantity has shrunken!!
I had previously wrote about this observation where the prices have not gone up significantly but the quantity sure has come down a lot! [...]

Business Times carried an article on the CPI forecast for February 2009. The table above shows the various forecast by main research houses/ banks.
While the average shows 3.41%, I am just wondering how people measure inflation when the price of things do not go up significantly but the portion does!! E.g. the hawker used to sell [...]