Thailand faces a crisis of high prices
Ekniti said Thailand was entering a third wave of crisis after the energy crisis: a crisis of high prices, driven largely by inflation in April 2026, which reached 2.9%.
There was a very high chance it would rise further, and it could reach 5%.
He said the situation was also part of a global crisis in which concern was focused on sharply higher US government bond yields, or Bond Yield, which, from the perspective of financiers and economists, confirmed that global financial markets expected inflation to rise sharply.
If the high-price crisis cannot be halted, it will lead to a purchasing-power crisis, because higher living costs will reduce the value of money in people’s pockets and hit…