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Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... reports point to continued improvement in the US labour market. But the actual result could still disappoint. Then there'll be hell to pay. That is, if you look at how financial markets would react on the day, or the day after. But if you take a slightly ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... extrapolate them into the future -- a boom is predicted to continue forever and a bust would continue towards the depths of hell. Here's proof. In its World Economic Outlook report dated 29 January 2008, the IMF printed, "global growth is projected at ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... "An unbalanced recovery would be better than a balanced recession." Yes, you read right gentle folks. They can all go to hell -- the Chinese are looking out for number one. Yeah America, that's what you get for insisting that China revalue its currency ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... year (10% of GDP according to The Economist Intelligence Unit), "as the government struggles to meet revenue goals." How in hell could you expect additional revenues when you've sacked thousand of private servants, lowered wages for those who are left ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... commission publishes final recommendations aimed at avoiding further state bailouts of lenders. BRUSSELS - After a summer of hell, the eurozone's divided leaders hit the ground running this week in crunch talks to save Greece from default and tame Europe's ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... kill it - and Gerry is again in the press today spruiking his profits and yet again warning of a christmas slowdown from hell. Bluescope may have similarly albeit accidentally saved the Australian economy from its own laziness and reform vague. Revitalising ...

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... "THANKS FOR THE DOWNGRADE. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED." I, and others like me, could continue to attack them credit-raters until hell freezes over. But at the end of the day, and as this latest episode proves - they remain the masters of the universe. There's ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... that America will default -- or the most recent scare, that USA will lose its AAA even if a default is averted - and unleash hell in the financial markets, wouldn't we have seen a much bigger drop in equities than these? Wouldn't US Treasuries soar through ...

Currency Forum to pose big questions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... being a little smarter. We'll go through and say, 'this is what you can do, these are the easy wins' and it doesn't take a hell of a lot of work either." As FX and cash leakages rises up the agenda of funds, Liddy will look into how they are being measured ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011