Poor and rich alike affected by price hikes


IS there any among us in Malaysia who does not have to care about how prices are going up? It is easy to believe that the wealthy and the powerful are unaffected when goods and services cost more, but that is not true.

When people cannot buy as much with the same amount of money as they used to, they are likely to cut spending that is deemed unnecessary. Businesses will eventually suffer and so will their owners.

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