In past few days I have seen so many shit takes on economy from Miftah Friends, PML N touts and so called financial reporters that I had to write this thread. It seems like all of these people got their finance / economic education from military academy.
A https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="collectie" aria-label="Emoji: collectie"> to shut them all.
Please stop using term “Mushkil Faisla” there is not even a decision.
You make a circus clown FM and ask him how to remove deficit, he will tell you increase prices and start selling things at cost + premium.
This could have been golden opportunity for Pak in IK hands.
First come first; world is in STAGFLATION since Q1 2022 your fav. News source just don’t know yet. Developing countries (like Pak) are familiar with stagflation. Stagflation is characterized by
1-High inflation
2-Low Growth (High unemployment)
Now US, EU are facing this.
CAUSE AND IMPACT OF STAGFLATION

Last time world experienced stagflation was in 1970s. Same chain of events again in 2020s.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">Supportive monetary policy (Low Interest rate + Stimulus check for COVID) https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">High demand as people are rich https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">Commodity Prices goes up https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">Central bank of developed countries tries to reduce demand by raising interest rate/financial tightening https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">To defend local currencies emerging markets also raise interest rate and try to front run ECB / FEDhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=Central bank of developed countries tries to reduce demand by raising interest rate/financial tightening https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">To defend local currencies emerging markets also raise interest rate and try to front run ECB / FEDhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">" title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">Central bank of developed countries tries to reduce demand by raising interest rate/financial tightening https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">To defend local currencies emerging markets also raise interest rate and try to front run ECB / FEDhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔴" title="Rode cirkel" aria-label="Emoji: Rode cirkel">Since tighten monetary policy can only reduce demand and not create new commodities, rich countries keep on gobbling up commodities (at higher prices) as they can afford while poor countries start to go in tailspin death spiral trying to manage debt + currency + imports https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Pijl naar rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Pijl naar rechts">
South east Asia was the clear winner in 1970s stagflation period. All those countries setup launchpad in stagflation period and then just sky rocketed.
South Korea and Taiwan are most similar to Pak so we will discuss those.
LOTS OF DATA, CHART PORN AND BIG BRAIN STUFF
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Politieautozwaailicht" aria-label="Emoji: Politieautozwaailicht">Like Pak. Both S. Korea and Taiwan had to import virtually all oil needs (Import / GDP).
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Politieautozwaailicht" aria-label="Emoji: Politieautozwaailicht">Like Pakistan They were also running a trade deficit where exports < Imports
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚨" title="Politieautozwaailicht" aria-label="Emoji: Politieautozwaailicht">MICRO ECONOMIC RESPONSE:
LONG TERM STRATEGY
-Shifting from high energy industry to less energy intensive industries
-Subsidies for increasing energy efficiency
-Non price conservation policies
-Fuel Substitution to Nuclear
SO HERE IN 2022 "IN ALL IT& #39;S WISDOM" PML N IS DOING EVERYTHING OPPOSITE.
so those "Mushkil Faislay" is basically political price of being ever incompetent and retard
Bonus charts https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎆" title="Vuurwerk" aria-label="Emoji: Vuurwerk">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎆" title="Vuurwerk" aria-label="Emoji: Vuurwerk">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎆" title="Vuurwerk" aria-label="Emoji: Vuurwerk">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎆" title="Vuurwerk" aria-label="Emoji: Vuurwerk">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎆" title="Vuurwerk" aria-label="Emoji: Vuurwerk">
Last few tweets are Appreciation tweet for IK. He turned around Pak economy, took us out from COVID. Created an opportunity with Russia that could have put us on map by reducing our oil bill by 15% at least. We could have had 7% GDP growth but now we will have -5% in $ term.
This is like 30,000 Rs decrease in yearly income of per person on avg (More in real term). Only if people would know magnitude of incompetence and blunders of PPP PML N.
That’s my Sunday down the drain so please share with your friends SO MY TIMELINE STOP BEING MORONIC.
This is not first stagflation; we are not the first country who is dealing with these challenges so just study and you will get 100s of playbooks you could follow. Please don’t try to improvise, other than Ik our politicians don’t have brain cells to deal with such issues.
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