The economic cost of period-shaming
Let us talk about periods. No, not the punctuation mark. The one related to women’s menstrual cycles. The one that men – of all...
Sovereign Debt Vulnerability
The last twelve years saw US$ based benchmark interest rate close to near zero as monetary expansion reduced the cost of capital fueling an...
Sit down, Mr Dar!
For a number of weeks, now former finance minister Ishaq Dar has been providing unsolicited input into the economic decision-making of the country, but...
Editor’s Note: Policy Reversals
There is no clearer indication that the current administration has absolutely no clue what they are doing on matters of fiscal policy than the...
TikTok was just unbanned. How long do you give it?
The audio-video based social media app has gone from banned to unbanned over and over again
Micro Economics and Big Data
A great deal of analysis and discussion is currently centred around the CPEC ranging from economic, geostrategic to even the existential raison d’etre as...
Transitioning away from a cash economy
What's wrong with extremely high levels of cash in our economy, and what needs to be done to fix this.
The Bitcoin Craze: Should you jump in?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 3 years, chances are you must have been acquainted with the recent surge in...
Corporate lies
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”- Terry Pratchett
Organizations have to constantly deal with a myriad...
Can the monetary system ever say Bella Ciao?
Is Dali's mask the only difference between central bankers and Money Heist members?
Privatisation is not a revenue generator
Here is how the federal finance ministry thinks about privatisation: the government will sell assets in absolute desperation when it needs to raise large...
Time is of the essence
Rivers of gold. That's what media mogul Rupert Murdoch once said about the classifieds section in newspapers.
Now, though I am definitely no Pakistani Murdoch,...
The challenges at the end of the tunnel
More seasoned governments have failed at these end-of-term difficulties. Will the PTI do any better?
Dissenting note: Here is what the government might be thinking
The criticism around the government's recently unveiled IT Export Policy is premature, primarily because there is a lack of information. The 18-page report that...
Bitter squeeze on the juice industry
A 20% excise duty meant to boost revenue is crushing the formal juice industry, hurting farmers, empowering unsafe informal players, and shrinking the tax base.
