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What I Got Right, What I Missed, and What Tariffs and DeepSeek Tell Us About Economic Adaptation 0
- Fireplace, Library
- October 26, 2026
Eighteen months after my April 2025 tariff essay, I revisit what I got right, what I missed, and what tariffs, DeepSeek and the AI investment cycle reveal about a broader economic principle: systems adapt around constraints.
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Indonesia’s Gas Cut to Singapore: Two Perspectives Behind the Headline 0
- Articles, Thought Leadership
- October 24, 2026
Indonesia’s gas cut makes for a dramatic headline. But from Singapore’s perspective it is a portfolio problem; from Indonesia’s, a resource-allocation decision.
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How I Hacked My KL Dinner with Microeconomics 0
- Fireplace
- October 23, 2026
A rainy evening, RM80 of street food, a suspicious Ritz-Carlton discount, and an unnecessarily thorough due-diligence exercise on dinner.
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Could SAFER See Trevor? What an Eight-Month-Old’s Death Tells Us About Early Detection of Child Abuse 0
- Thought Leadership
- October 13, 2026
What an eight-month-old’s death tells us about early detection, reporting and intervention in child abuse.
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