Debt, taxation, and the public balance sheet, explained plainly.
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This article is inspired by our Prime Minister in ways that may not yet seem obvious. I was so moved by an interview that she granted an international audience early last week that I had no choice but…
Public debt is one of the most misunderstood numbers in Caribbean economics. Here is a plain-language guide to what it does and does not mean for your family.
Some of you are going to tell me that I got the idea for this article from Jeff Bezos. That could not be further from the truth. He did, however, provide an interesting basis from which I plan to make…
I don’t think I can recall one time that I saw my grandmother using an ATM. I am, however, certain that she had a debit card some years before she passed. Many in her generation feared the ATM. Quite…
Generally, I do not believe that any government could “ease” the cost of living in any small open economy with no natural resources. Trinidad doesn’t determine our price levels. I mean to say that its…
Happy Holidays to all, and thank you for allowing me to write to you this past year. It is not my intention to maintain a political tone in these articles. In fact, I abhor that inclination. Yet, an…
To my brother, Jade Stephen: may you have the happiest of birthdays today. I hope you enjoy this attempt to further assuage the public’s appetite for an explanation of public debt.
I’m afraid that I’ll begin to sound like a broken record if I touch on what has unfolded on island these past two weeks. Firmly, the solutions to this lie in our economic problems but in as long as we…
Barbados, or any small island tourism economy for that matter, never gains "directly" on paper from subsidising a route. According to the plenty-shared Cayman Compass article, published on April 9th…
I am not one to say that I am fully vaccinated against naivety. I was even accused, rightly so, of such in the middle of January this year. And, as such, I would like to speak to naivety in social and…