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Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... the numerous carrots and sticks already in operation. Pauline Loong - who describes herself as "Macro, China political economist" - provides the most rational rationale in her piece titled, "Beijing Might Have Included A Boomerang In Its A-Shares Rescue ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
"Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you... And I'm wondering what it is I should do" -- Stealers Wheel This was my immediate thought upon reading Bloomberg's piece that, "For two months the Standard & ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... as full-timers have a greater sense of job security and income permanence. A theory developed by Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman known as "Permanent Income Hypothesis". Similarly, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.0% from a downwardly ...

86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... gets a,-86 billion over three years. At least, Greece can sleep easy for three full years... or maybe not. For as The Economist magazine puts it: "In exchange for the package, which could amount to as much as a,-86 billion ($95 billion) over three years ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... and Aconex chair Adam Lewis have been appointed to FIIG Securities' board. FSC revamps board, policy team - FSC chief economist James Bond has left the organisation.

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... be talkin' 'bout another dose of QE instead of a lift. China, after all, is economy nAomero dos. But I digress. The Economist magazine put the Chinese stock market in perspective in an article titled, " China's stockmarket crash, A red flag " "Lost in ...

FSC revamps board, policy team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... Financial Services Council (FSC) has appointed State Street head of Asia Pacific to its board and confirmed that chief economist James Bond has left the organisation. State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) head of Asia Pacific, Lochiel Crafter, is the latest ...

Eslake consultancy up and running after leaving BoA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
Economist Saul Eslake is "pleasantly surprised" at the amount of work that he has been asked to do through his consultancy firm only weeks after leaving Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML). Speaking to Financial Standard, Eslake said that over the ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... to do so. During one of several high jinxed episodes of the Greek crisis - in May 2011, Bloomberg quoted former ECB economist, Otmar Issing, saying that "Greece cheated to get in, and it's difficult to know how we should deal with cheaters." Yeah right. ...

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... same. The '"offer that cannot be refused" meets with "go ahead punk, make my day"! This is because, according to 'The Economist' magazine, "...three more will be held over the next seven days to try and avoid catastrophe". That's another two more after ...