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Santa's in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... There was worldwide cheer when Santa Obama announced that he's forged a compromise deal with the Republicans extending the Bush-era personal income tax cuts by another two years, temporarily reduce payroll and social security taxes, hold the dividend ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... data means that more money would be dropping out of Big Ben's helicopter. It's also provided a case for the extension of the Bush tax cuts which end at the end of the year. That's the good news if the news turns more ugly for America. But it's not getting ...

Global private equity firms invest in OzForex

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... its customer base including small and medium-sized businesses and individuals investing overseas. Two US presidents, George Bush Snr. and George W. Bush, have previously served as advisors to Carlyle, while former UK Prime Minister John Major and Thai ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... to propose a VAT (value-added tax). In the name of reducing the budget deficit, Obama is thinking of doing away with the "Bush tax cuts" come January next year. Oh, and he's also announced increasing income taxes for those earning US$250,000 per annum ...

Shorten takes on superannuation portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Bill Shorten, former Parliamentary secretary for disability services and AustralianSuper and Victorian Funds Management Corporation director, has been appointed minister for superannuation while former superannuation minister Chris Bowen takes on the ...

Planes, trains & automobiles and the bush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
Kick off! While we continue to hold our collective breaths for the trio from the bush to tell us which political party "we voted for" last 21 August, campaigning has kicked off on our big brother's shores. It's Labor Day in the USA, heralding the start ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... source of worry. Yes, Virginia here's one more to add to your list of worries - it's called geopolitical risk. In George Bush Junior's time, they were Al Qaeda and Afghanistan and Saddam and Iraq. Last night, screens were flashing red again with geo-political ...

Rules, rules, rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
Do you know what Moses did when God handed him the Ten Commandments? He squatted beside the burning bush, placed both hands on his face and cried, "Rules, rules, rules... too many rules!" But unlike Moses, America's biggest banks are not squatting and ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... Wall Street needed a boost, Alan was there. But you went far beyond that when you bowed to the political pressures of the Bush and Obama administrations and turned the Fed into an arm of the Treasury. Under your watch, the Bernanke Put became a bailout ...

Almost Per-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... trillion. Scary stuff. But recall then former US President Clinton's budget surplus "as far as the eye can see?" It just took one Bush to turn it into a "what surplus?" And the GFC to shovel it further down. By the same token, a lot could happen in ten ...