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The Science of Stupid 1. The Dunning-Kruger effect This is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. 2. The...
The Rubber Glove Madness of 2020 How crazy did it get for the glove makers during the pandemic? The 7 listed glove makers combined 10x their profits in 2020/21 from a year earlie...
Grab announced its Q1 quarterly earnings recently TLDR: Money burning continues, but at a slower rate Q1 performance Gross Merchandise Value (GMV): USD4.96 bil (+3% yoy) Rev: USD...
Understand the biz model of "pajak gadaI", or pawnbroking by analysing Pappajack Holdings Bhd (PPJ), the first and only Bursa-listed pawnbroker Though associated with -ve connota...
HK's Dairy Farm Intโl (DFI), which owns Giant will exit the Malaysian grocery industry after 24yrs It sold its stake to MacroValue S/B for โat least a couple of billions of MYRโ....
EPF Savings - the tragic difference between T20 vs B40/M40 EPF savings @ Apr 2020 & Dec 2022 (% change) B40: RM13bil > RM7 bil (-46%) M40: RM191bil > RM138 bil (-28%) T20: RM5...
Building a burger empire This is a story of how Ramly bin Mokni turned RM2k into a RM1 bil business. Familiar name? He is the eponymous founder of Ramly Burger Ramly Group is amo...
Cow buys ice cream - Farm Fresh Bhd (FFB) acquires 65% stake in The inside Scoop (IS) for RM85 mil This values the ice cream co. at RM129 mil IS is Malaysiaโs largest home-grown...
Grab is rumoured to be looking to acquire a stake in Ambank, a traditional bank. To recap, Grab together with Singtel and Kuok Brothers are amongst the 5 consortiums that were aw...
What started off as a means of diversification to the Genting Group has become Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay's nightmare. Genting HK filed for liquidation on Jan 18 as liquidity dries up,...
We read economic news almost every day, but how many of us actually understand what those numbers mean? "GDP shrank by 4.5% in Q3 of 2021." WTF does it mean and why is it import...