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Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... provides income - and in this case, offers of higher salaries - more employed Americans would benefit from Trump's tax cuts. Not only that, the US government budget wins too, in that it's spending less on unemployment benefits. Latest data show ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... accelerated from an annualised rate of 3.8% in the June quarter to 4% in the September quarter. To be sure, Trump's tax cuts are now working its way into the US economy, lifting consumers' disposable income that is generating a virtuous cycle ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... blame. The Fed wouldn't have to raise interest rates as much and as expected had Trump not goosed the economy with his tax cuts and fiscal spend - the economy was already in its way up without these, thank you very much. Trump's correct in claiming ...

Chief economist update: If you can't beat Trump, copy Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... Yet hope has sprung! It appears that the Chinese government has now borrowed a leaf from its adversary in the form of tax cuts. China's Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation has just published the personal income tax deduction ...

Chief economist update: Bull markets don't die of old age

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2018
... Fed has already achieved its aim at current policy settings. This helps explains Trump's tantrum (especially as his tax cuts and fiscal spending helped engineer the boom in activity), as well as justifying the markets' anxiety over the Fed's ...

Chief economist update: That other Fed policy towards normalcy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... increased bond supply. The US Treasury expects to issue an extra US$1.3 trillion of bonds this year to finance Trump's tax cuts and fiscal spending.

Instant asset write off extended

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
... instant asset write off legislation passing through the Senate. Part of the Government's economic agenda to introduce tax cuts to business, the instant asset write-off helps small and medium businesses reinvest in their business by replacing or upgrading ...

Chief economist update: Famous last words

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... LPL's rationale. Economic growth in the US had been growing and growing and growing, primarily boosted by Trump's tax cuts and fiscal spend. The US Federal Reserve while on a path towards higher interest rates, is doing it gently, gently. Don't ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... year. Those were the days of synchronised growth upswing, given more oomph by Trump's declared corporate and personal tax cuts and more fiscal largesse that'll send the tide of global economic activity rise even more and lift emerging markets' ...

Chief economist update: Boom in the USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... Consumer spending contributed 2.69 percentage points to the June quarter's overall growth. Solid employment growth and tax cuts have prompted American households to go on a spending splurge on both discretionary and non-discretionary items and durable ...