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Sri Lanka should stop blocking export diversification, victimizing services after Trump tariff

There are quick fixes and numerous longer term reforms that can fundamentally change the country

April 7, 2025 10 min read

Sri Lanka current account turns to deficit in 4Q after printing money

The 4Q events were a dress rehearsal of what would happen later when private credit picks up

March 30, 2025 6 min read

Sri Lanka's central bank totally mistaken on 'single' Bank of England rate

There no political policy rate, single or otherwise during periods of stability and growth when good money was provided

February 13, 2025 13 min read

How to avoid Sri Lanka rice shortages, made by government controls

Food prices go up due to a combination of government controls and also money printing

January 6, 2025 9 min read
Sri Lanka's exchange rate depreciation by 'Political Ravishment'

Hunky dory depreciation is due to a flaw in the exchange rate policy

Sri Lanka's central bank, IMF, World Bank should stop following Marx and rejecting economists

Spreading cost-push Mercantilism may help macro-economists escape accountability but it will not help the masses

Sri Lanka ports, airports made essential services

A strike planned on March 01

February 28, 2023 1 min read

IMF should approve Sri Lanka deal, devise bi-lateral debt-restructuring clause

IMF should stop the promotion of impossible trinity regimes with spurious claims to monetary policy independence

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February 28, 2023 12 min read

How Sri Lanka rejected Singapore monetary advice and politicians, people paid the price

Call from Goh, Shenoy to provide sound money discarded in favour of depreciation, flexible regimes

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February 9, 2023 14 min read
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Sri Lanka central bank caught between peg and hard place

Care should be taken to make sure that excess liquidity does not re-emerge from fictitious capital

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January 19, 2023 8 min read

Sri Lanka's central bank crisis and John Exter's about face on hard pegs: Bellwether

In 1968 with Bretton Woods soft-peg hanging on a thread, advantages of currency board had become clear

December 15, 2022 7 min read
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Sri Lanka's tragedy and the lost wisdom of D S Senanayake on money printing

That BOP deficits and reserve losses are caused by money printing is now hidden and victims are blamed

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October 24, 2022 9 min read
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Sri Lanka rates elevated amid failed float and DDR fears

Fear of a DDR/IFR event drive rates even higher

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September 19, 2022 13 min read

Sri Lanka is wrong to scapegoat expat workers over Undiyal: Bellwether

Indian billion dollar credit line also works Undiyal fashion

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July 25, 2022 6 min read
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Sri Lanka, world's poor suffer from Fed's accidental discovery of OMO: Bellwether

It is through open market operations that money is printed to mis-target interest rates

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June 15, 2022 13 min read
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Sri Lanka's central bank needs accountability and restraint, not independence: Bellwether

The absolute discretion to print money through flexible inflation targeting cum output gap targeting has to be blocked

Bellwether
June 1, 2022 12 min read
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Sri Lanka can trigger food shortages as in medicines with new trade controls: Bellwether

Forcing food importers to use LCs can create food shortages.

April 29, 2022 11 min read

What Sri Lanka's IMF program should look like

Steep rate hikes are needed to save the rupee

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April 7, 2022 15 min read

Sri Lanka has to work fast to contain multiple defaults as Tanzi bites: Bellwether

A flexible exchange rate fails because it is not rule bound

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April 1, 2022 9 min read

Sri Lanka has to hike rates, ensure monetary fiscal co-ordination to help rupee: Bellwether

Monetary fiscal co-ordination comes from an International Monetary Fund

March 10, 2022 4 min read
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Sri Lanka use of reserves for imports is a deadly false choice: Bellwether

Sterilized currency defence, without an accompanying rise in rates, spells disaster

January 31, 2022 17 min read
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Sri Lanka has to hike rates, before a float to end forex crisis: Bellwether

At the current policy rates and sterilization of interventions, forex problems will not get better

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January 18, 2022 16 min read

Sri Lanka should prepare to float, and promote parallel dollarization: Bellwether

The proposal to import cars with dollar earnings and pay taxes in dollars is absolutely correct

December 21, 2021 16 min read

Why the Sri Lanka rupee is depreciating creating currency crises: Bellwether

A Bellwether FAQ on the dangerous lack of note-issue banking know-how

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November 9, 2021 27 min read
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How Sri Lanka's IMF-backed 'Young Plan' fired a foreign debt death spiral: Bellwether

In all years with inflationary policy, debt after foreign reserves went up

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September 16, 2021 18 min read

Sri Lanka's monetary meltdown will accelerate unless quick action is taken: Bellwether

Debt re-structuring to reduce gross financing needs will help

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August 18, 2021 19 min read