Sri Lanka should protest the 7-pct annual inflation target, not a 3-pct VAT hike
19.02 2024: …mis-trust private sector led activity, liberal democracy and bring nationalists and other fringe elements to power in the high inflation period or the stabilization that follows. And whenever there is high productivity growth after a…
Vital aspects and lessons for Sales, Marketing Professionals
28.10 2023: Majority of them always ask or even fight to get a raise in their salaries and other fringe benefits.As Sales and Marketing Professionals you should not do that rather you should strive for excellence in fulfilling your duties and do more…
Cynics vs . Labour-law reform
12.08 2023: That seems to be the argument of the anti-reform fringe. Fringe it is even though entire political parties have put their clout behind this position. Are there any merits behind laws that protect women workers and prohibit night shifts…
Members of Zahran’s group should be monitored until they die - Prof. Gunaratna
01.08 2023: These two groups are influencing a fringe of the Muslim community to embrace their belief system or their ideology. The main base of al-Qaeda is in Afghanistan and the al-Qaeda rank and file is protected by the Taliban.…
Sri Lanka’s bill for new monetary law analyzed by W A Wijewardena
06.05 2023: The philosophy was relegated to fringe of economic debate in the previous century, resulting in stable money for decades on end. Driven by Robert Triffin, a hardcore Keynesian, the US Fed helped build several central banks in Latin…
Sri Lanka marks first labour day since IMF deal amid political headwinds
03.05 2023: Supporters of mainstream and fringe political parties new and old congregated in various parts of the capital Colombo and elsewhere in the island to celebrate May Day. As is tradition, the events were less about workers and more about…
Sri Lanka projects higher economic growth than IMF up to 2027
28.04 2023: Suppressing interest rates by liquidity injections began in the 1920s as previously fringe ideology became mainstream policy in the US and UK, triggering …in the ensuring years and ending a liberal economic order based on sound money.…
Sri Lanka’s shares slip in mid day trade across the board on debt restructuring comments
27.04 2023: Political analysts speculate that the particular strain of nationalism, which is far from fringe, represented by the likes of Weerawansa is now languishing in the post-Aragalayala political wilderness,…
Secularism indeed
08.04 2023: Certain high-level sports have been swamped by those who profess to be of certain fringe religious persuasions. This is not the forum to name names, but let’s put it this way: everyone knows. Some of what has been happening would have been…
Resurrection: the foundation of Christianity
08.04 2023: With the very touch of the fringe of His garment, instantly healing flowed from Jesus to the sick woman and she was cured. That was all, the woman wanted, and with that, she was to move/slip away but she could not do so as Jesus called her.…
Rout rabble-rousers
21.01 2023: in attempts to create wedges between communities for their personal narrow political or other advantage would always be there, but there is enough of a critical mass in society to say no to these fringe purveyors of unreason these days.…
Adieu, tough year
24.12 2022: For this to happen salaries should rise, and the cost of living crisis should be ameliorated due to better wages and fringe benefits. This still is a sanguine hope and noting more, but the simple fact that the economy is moving once more has…
Voting against ourselves, are we?
02.11 2022: All politicians are right-wing, as all politicians are right-wing in this country for instance save for some fringe players who somehow don’t seem to be able to generate any traction whatsoever from the fringes.…
Economies and the lure of ‘exclusive clubs’
14.09 2022: but even though Erdogan must be targeting some of those favours when he wants so badly to join the European Union, it is unlikely that JR was thinking of similar fringe-benefits when he applied for ASEAN membership.…
Sri Lanka is wrong to scapegoat expat workers over Undiyal: Bellwether
26.07 2022: …after printing money to sterilize outflows in a clear rejection of the classical greats and the embrace of post-depression - mainly English speaking - Mercantilists who mainstreamed what were fringe ideas in classical liberalism.…