US economy – Economics of Information Society

Global reset – Economic decoupling (Part 3: US decoupling – Costs, flaws and revising the strategies)

Global reset – Economic decoupling (Part 3: US decoupling – Costs, flaws and revising the strategies) Phuah Eng Chye (15 January 2022) The US, and the West, has struggled to formulate a coherent response to China’s rise. The US has set itself on a path towards decoupling but the heavy costs suggest there are flaws … “Global reset – Economic decoupling (Part 3: US decoupling – Costs, flaws and revising the strategies)”

Phuah Eng Chye

I was formerly a securities regulator and equities analyst. I started writing these articles (and a book) because I felt that there were a lot of economic theories that didn’t seem to match up to the realities we are facing. This also means that a lot of policies (based on these theories) are wrong. So I’ve tried to make sense of how things worked based on the paradigm of an information society. Its a challenging topic and difficult to pin down. This means I have had to explore issues over a wide range of policy areas. Over the next few months, I will cover the service economy, the sharing economy, household and work structures before moving onto policy issues on the anorexic economy (role of corporates, basic income, housing affordability) and the financialisation process (capital, monetary policy, securities regulation).

Date	Article/Event
8 April 2022	China’s model (Part 2: Digital China and the information society)