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Wages separate businesses from consumers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2017
... growth in wages; increases in key costs such as electricity and emerging concerns about rising interest rates..." Yes Virginia, we're back to wages. The same one the RBA notes as the "largest component of business costs" and which helps explain rising ...

Economics 101 is dead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... inflation - but we still have to come up with a nomenclature for the current growth/inflation dynamics around the globe. Yes, Virginia, the present dynamics where growth momentum is strengthening but inflation remains a no-show and one that was reinforced ...

Insurer must refund $330k

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
Virginia Surety Company, a general insurer whose bundled add-on products included life insurance cover, has been subject to an ASIC investigation involving more than 500 customers. In a release issued by the regulator, Virginia Surety was said to have ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
A Budget here, and a Budget there, Budget, Budget, everywhere a Budget. Yes Virginia, it's Budget overload, there's wall to wall coverage of the Australian Federal government's 2017/18 Budget - before, during and after - its big reveal on the evening ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... encountered significant adverse shocks that required a reduction in the target range for the federal funds rate." Yes, Virginia, it'll be back to the good news is good news and bad news is good news all over again (if it becomes necessary). The Fed doesn't ...

Obamacare one, Trump nil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAR 2017
... an experience that leads to an even better healthcare plan." - Remarks by President Trump on the Health Care Bill. Yes Virginia, US President Donald Trump learned a lot last week. The unfolding events did, however, strengthen the credibility of the democratic ...

Good for now worrying for later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... conditions 5, "consistent with solid business activity in the near-term, and are higher than through much of H2 2016". No Virginia, the sky is not falling. More so because the February "give back" didn't come as a surprise either. NAB chief economist ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... landing. Not surprisingly, gloom and doom was the catchphrase in the early days of last year. Just in case you've forgotten Virginia, here's 'The Telegraph's" headline (dated 11 January 2016), "RBS cries 'sell everything' as deflationary crisis nears" ...

The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... into play, is here and now today." -Donny Osmond, 'This is the moment" Well, Wednesday (14 December 2016), to be precise Virginia - the day when the Fed finally gets to go ahead and push rate hike button numero dos. The second coming if you will. You ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
Be careful what you wish for... No Virginia, except for Putin, the majority of world leaders didn't wish for Trump. So far away from Good Friday, they would have crucified US presidential "candidate" Donald Trump (if that was legal). In mid-January ...