There is room for the Ministry of Finance to act like a big brother should it choose—wrongly—to do so.

There is a need to balance the environment and development, but it's not the central bank's job.

They do not command the respect they deserve in government policy or people’s minds.

Greater electricity use can not only cut the fuel bill, but also clip a potential source of imported inflation.

Money that should have gone to the corporate coffers is going to the shareholders’ pockets.

The central bank as a regulator has responsibilities, not the least of which is investor protection.

Ideally, politics and central banking should be like oil and water. But we do not live in a perfect world.

The rise in margin debt is a signal that investors’ risk appetite has gone up.

Companies should be the ones to decide if and when to merge, not government edicts.

With leverage in trading, any gains get multiplied. But so do the losses.

One bad stumble is all it takes for a fledgeling system to suffer a fatal blow.

It is folly to invest solely because rates are low and shy away because rates are rising.

Tons of small businesses are simply hanging by a thread; they need grants, not loans.

A lesson from the tech frenzy of the 1990s: The sooner speculative bubbles get pricked, the better.

The International Monetary Fund forecasts the economy to have grown by zero percent.