Chief Economist & Political Strategist, CrossASEAN Research

Prasenjit K. Basu

PK Basu has 34 years experience covering Asia's economies and markets (equities, fixed income and currencies), including 20 years covering the global economy. He was Chief Economist (SE Asia & India) at Credit Suisse First Boston for 5 years, and Chief Asia (x-Jpn) Economist at Daiwa Securities for a similar period. Among other roles, he was global head of research at Maybank Kim Eng, Malaysia equity research head and chief ASEAN economist at Macquarie, Chief Economist at ICICI Securities, ASEAN economist at UBS and the first chief economist at Khazanah Nasional (where he was co-head of research, and led all agri-business initiatives). PK Basu started his career in the Asia Service of WEFA (Wharton Econometrics) in Philadelphia in 1990, rising to be Director of their Asia Service in June 1994. 
PK's book, "Asia Reborn: A continent rises from the ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism" won the Tata Literature First Book Award (non-fiction) for 2018. It is the first single chronicle of the modern economic and political history of the whole of Asia (from Iraq and Turkey to Korea and Japan, and everything in between), told from an Asian perspective.

Chief Economist & Political Strategist

Italy - Not Much Italexit Risk Is Priced in Yet.

Germany Shifts to the Left Despite Retiring Merkel's Stratospheric Poll Numbers

Why Italy Must Default: It Is a Question of when Not If.

EU: A New Crisis as Italy Takes a Fiscally Profligate and Russophile Turn

REAL-Economics.com

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Germany & italy / Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>Italy's political convulsions are still being discussed as mainly a fight between the "responsible" Italian establishment and the crazy extremists of left and right that won the majority of seats in March's parliamentary elections. The proposed coalition of left-nihilists and far rightists was not proposing that Italy exit the euro-zone -- only that it pursue a medley of left- and right-wing stimulus that would break Italy out of the straitjacket of EU fiscal orthodoxy. Had Germany's new…</p>

Italy's political convulsions are still being discussed as mainly a fight between the "responsible" Italian establishment and the crazy extremists of left and right that won the majority of seats in March's parliamentary elections. The proposed coalition of left-nihilists and far rightists was not proposing that Italy exit the euro-zone -- only that it pursue a medley of left- and right-wing stimulus that would break Italy out of the straitjacket of EU fiscal orthodoxy. Had Germany's new…

Italy and Germany Are Taking the Eurozone Rapidly Toward Meltdown