Opinion
The Thaiger Opinion Columns.
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Thailand is walking into a carbon trap and nobody’s talking about it
Somewhere in the rice paddies of Suphanburi, a farmer is making the same decisions his father made. How much fertiliser to apply, when to flood the fields, which market will pay the best price? He is not thinking about the European Union, nor is he thinking about carbon certificates or emissions trading schemes. He is thinking about his crop. But…
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Strength for the dollar in February; focus on monetary policy this month
The dollar generally recovered in February, and gold also bounced after late January’s dramatic retracement against the backdrop of somewhat greater uncertainty about the likely policies of the Federal Reserve (‘the Fed’) later this year and overall mixed data from the USA. Meanwhile, the yen received a significant short-term boost from the clear results of the Japanese general election; the…
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