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Macquarie AM reveals outlook for 2022

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
... McCormack said that in his view, the world economy has been in one 'macroeconomic regime' since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. "The globalisation process this unleashed, and specifically the successive positive labour supply shocks combined ...

Chief economist update: A whole new world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... less you'll need social contact and the safer you will be. In many of my writings, I have lauded the fall of the Berlin Wall in the late-1980s and the disintegration of the USSR - basically the end of communism and the Cold War - as providing a peace ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... it's good for them and for the rest of us because easing tensions in the Asian region should - as the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 did - produce a peace dividend that should lift all boats. However, given the two personalities' unpredictable ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... other nations, the Eurozone would be elated by the peace dividend this would bring - much like it did back when the Berlin Wall crumbled - and even more so given the European Central Bank's (ECB) concern over the "the threat of increased protectionism." ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... could be one big step for Korea, Asia and the world towards de-nuclearisation and peace. Just like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a positive outcome would bring a "peace dividend" to the world with positive implications for investment markets. ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... armada of US naval ships to the seas off North Korea. The peace dividend the world enjoyed since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 could go in reverse. There's also the trade war. Trump's actions against Syria have proven that the man walks the ...

German FM defends Euro

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... commentary that is ignorant of Europe's political history. "When setting it up [the Eurozone] shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall we were not able to go all the way and create a Political Union, side by side with the economic and monetary union." ...

Tawrrific APEC and the Berlin Wall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... aside, Sydney has been given a good spit and polish, the flower boxes have been refreshed and Sydney's answer to the Berlin wall, a five-kilometre, 2.8-metre-high fence around the CBD is in its final stages of completion. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ...

QWL sets sights on Eastern Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... region for investment opportunities has been accelerating since the re-unification of Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall 15 years ago, and the gradual admittance of former Warsaw Pact members to the European Union. "Economic reforms combined with ...
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