https://dominomicsofficial.com/ 2026-10-28 https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/ 2026-10-28 https://dominomicsofficial.com/explore/ 2026-10-28 https://dominomicsofficial.com/about/ https://dominomicsofficial.com/work-with-us/ https://dominomicsofficial.com/corrections/ https://dominomicsofficial.com/privacy/ https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/which-southeast-asian-economy-is-really-winning/ 2026-10-28 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2Ck8VNTNJMU/maxresdefault.jpg Which Southeast Asian Economy Is Really Winning? On the IMF's new numbers, Malaysia goes from the smallest of Southeast Asia's six big economies in 2025 to fourth in 2026, past Vietnam and the Philippines. The Philippines falls to last, and Vietnam passes Indonesia in income per person. Yet Malaysia's economy grew about as fast as Indonesia's. So which Southeast Asian economy is really winning, and why did one currency move the table more than a whole year of growth? https://www.youtube.com/embed/2Ck8VNTNJMU 638 2026-10-28T02:07:52-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/how-long-can-singapores-ai-boom-last/ 2026-10-27 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yXr0Vaysp-k/maxresdefault.jpg How Long Can Singapore's AI Boom Last? Singapore's economy is riding the AI boom: it grew 5.4% in the third quarter of 2026, and its central bank says about three-quarters of that growth came from technology. The same central bank expects AI-related activity to moderate in the latter half of 2027, and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said it plainly on October 8: "No boom is forever." https://www.youtube.com/embed/yXr0Vaysp-k 575 2026-10-27T06:01:06-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/asia-best-worst-stock-markets-2026/ 2026-10-27 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1F1Itw_aG4I/maxresdefault.jpg Which Asian Stock Market Crashed the Most? On June 22, 2026, South Korea's stock market closed at a record, more than double where it started the year. Four months later it is 40% below that peak. Indonesia's market has lost more than a third of its value this year; Taiwan's is up almost 60%. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1F1Itw_aG4I 650 2026-10-27T00:06:11-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/asia-best-worst-currencies-2026/ 2026-10-26 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/en0veO3krv4/maxresdefault.jpg Which Asian Currency Is Falling the Most? On October 23, 2026, the Philippine peso closed at its weakest ever, ₱63.615 to the US dollar, its 31st record low of the year. Indonesia's rupiah has fallen just as far. India's rupee and Thailand's baht are down 5–6%. But the Korean won is up 9%, and at the end of June it was at its weakest in 17 years. https://www.youtube.com/embed/en0veO3krv4 575 2026-10-26T01:22:20-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/why-cant-anyone-copy-tsmc/ 2026-10-24 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c3tShW7Dojg/maxresdefault.jpg Why Can't Anyone Copy TSMC? Nvidia's AI chips, the processors in Apple's iPhones and most of the world's most advanced chips come from one company, almost all of them from one island: TSMC. Japan, America, Samsung, Intel and Elon Musk are spending fortunes to copy it, yet TSMC still takes about 70% of contract chipmaking revenue. And Taiwan imports about 95% of its energy: after the Strait of Hormuz all but closed, its Qatari gas (a third of its LNG in 2025) stopped arriving. https://www.youtube.com/embed/c3tShW7Dojg 766 2026-10-23T17:40:07-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/why-gold-fell-in-a-war/ 2026-10-22 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t0T_fJ5ndcM/maxresdefault.jpg There's a War. So Why Did Gold Fall? Gold closed at a record in January 2026. Then war broke out between Iran, the United States and Israel, oil soared, and gold, the world's safe haven, fell: its worst week since 1983 and its worst month since 2013. On October 21, gold futures were still 22% below their record close. In Asia, that's family savings: Indian households alone hold an estimated 25,000 tonnes of gold, about three times the US government's gold reserves. https://www.youtube.com/embed/t0T_fJ5ndcM 625 2026-10-22T05:15:35-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/is-airasia-running-out-of-money/ 2026-10-21 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PGOFXNXvqMc/maxresdefault.jpg Why AirAsia's Full Planes Are Losing Money AirAsia's planes were about 80% full from April to June 2026, and its airlines still lost RM830 million (≈ US$204 million), about RM9 million (≈ US$2.2 million) a day. Its shares are down 74% this year, the worst of the 27 listed airlines we checked. On October 19, Malaysia's government told parliament it has so far made no agreement to support AirAsia: no guarantees, no loans, no public money. https://www.youtube.com/embed/PGOFXNXvqMc 582 2026-10-21T15:30:31-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/which-southeast-asian-economy-breaks-first/ 2026-10-21 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dfO4XNpl49o/maxresdefault.jpg Which Southeast Asian Economy Breaks First? Bali rationed petrol by number plate. Malaysia pays about RM40 billion to keep petrol at RM1.99. The Philippine peso hit a record low with inflation at 7.2%, and Thailand's fuel fund is about ฿100 billion in debt. It's one chain reaction: a war that choked the Strait of Hormuz, oil near $110, and a Federal Reserve raising rates while money runs to the dollar. https://www.youtube.com/embed/dfO4XNpl49o 718 2026-10-21T04:09:29-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/singapore-malaysia-water-3-sen/ 2026-10-20 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9V-Ra2JFRyo/maxresdefault.jpg AI Is Drinking Johor's Water. What Happens to Singapore? Since 1962, Singapore has paid Johor 3 sen for every 1,000 gallons of raw water from the Johor River, and the price has never changed. Up to 250 million gallons a day, for at most RM2.7 million a year: less than 50 sen per person in Singapore. But the water also flows back: Johor buys treated water from Singapore at 50 sen, about 16 million gallons a day, and by our count pays slightly more each year than Singapore pays for all the raw water. Now AI data centres in Johor want the same river. https://www.youtube.com/embed/9V-Ra2JFRyo 654 2026-10-20T16:30:38-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/why-is-everyone-selling-asian-stocks/ 2026-10-20 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QWPK8do0YVU/maxresdefault.jpg Why Is Everyone Selling Asian Stocks? In October 2026, Asia's two most important chipmakers reported record quarters, and their stock markets fell apart. Korea's KOSPI lost 20.7% in seven trading days and trading was halted mid-day on October 15. Foreign investors sold Taiwan stocks for nine straight days, NT$758.5 billion (about US$23.6 billion), and the Taiwan dollar slid until the central bank put out a rare statement. In one week, foreign investors pulled $28.3 billion out of eight Asian stock markets. So, is it 1997 again? https://www.youtube.com/embed/QWPK8do0YVU 652 2026-10-20T04:32:10-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/france-next-greece/ 2026-10-19 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FmDpK-helXQ/maxresdefault.jpg France Is Burning. Is It the Next Greece? On October 17, France burned: about 550,000 people marched, Limoges's 19th-century town hall went up in flames and 2,397 people were arrested. On Monday, the bond market gave its verdict: France now pays more to borrow than Greece. So is France the next Greece? https://www.youtube.com/embed/FmDpK-helXQ 671 2026-10-19T10:03:37-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/indonesia-msci-stock-market-crash/ 2026-10-19 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JYi0tpK_DVU/maxresdefault.jpg How One Press Release Crashed Indonesia's Stock Market At 4:47 a.m. Jakarta time on Friday, October 16, 2026, the index company MSCI proposed moving Indonesia out of its Emerging Markets index into "Standalone" status. Four hours later the Jakarta Composite opened 8% lower, trading was halted for 30 minutes, and the index closed down 11.57%: its worst day since January 8, 1998, with about $60 billion of market value gone. https://www.youtube.com/embed/JYi0tpK_DVU 667 2026-10-19T03:29:17-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/tesla-flying-car-stock/ 2026-10-19 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yJz17e16UGs/maxresdefault.jpg Tesla Made a Car Fly. Wall Street Shrugged. Tesla flew its new Roadster at a SpaceX rocket site on Thursday night. When pre-market trading opened the next morning, Tesla's stock was up more than 5% at its peak, about $78 billion of market value in thin early trading. By 10:52 a.m. the gain was gone, and Tesla closed down 2%, exactly in line with the Nasdaq. https://www.youtube.com/embed/yJz17e16UGs 644 2026-10-18T17:00:33-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/indonesia-haze-singapore-malaysia/ 2026-10-18 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MSdP4FLG2t4/maxresdefault.jpg Why Indonesia's Fires Choke Singapore and Malaysia On October 18, the air in western Singapore hit 230 on the official pollution index, "very unhealthy". Malaysia had already sent an estimated two million students home, and one airline had cancelled its Kuala Lumpur–Singapore flights for a week because of the smoke. In one week, NASA's fire-tracking system recorded more than 48,000 fire detections in Indonesia. https://www.youtube.com/embed/MSdP4FLG2t4 708 2026-10-18T10:57:49-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/ai-hidden-debt/ 2026-10-18 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/G8zv1FkL5IU/maxresdefault.jpg The AI Bubble's Hidden $1.65 Trillion Debt Bomb On page 78 of Microsoft's annual report, one sentence says it has signed $329 billion of data-center leases that haven't started yet: seven times its long-term debt, and none of it counted as debt. Across Big Tech, promises like this add up to at least $1.65 trillion. https://www.youtube.com/embed/G8zv1FkL5IU 684 2026-10-18T08:32:35-07:00 yes https://dominomicsofficial.com/episodes/iran-war-ai-bubble/ 2026-10-17 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7PY_XocWe7k/maxresdefault.jpg How the Iran War Could Pop the AI Bubble The Iran war shut a 21-mile strait in the Middle East. A $27 billion data center in Louisiana looks unrelated. 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