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Chief economist update: China's great leap forward 70 years in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... IMF's special drawing rights after the US dollar and the euro. It would have been celebrations all around but US President Donald Trump and the recent protests and riots in Hong Kong are raining on the Politburo's parade - both threatening to ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... it's now not only "whatever it takes" but "however long it takes". If you want to know how long, it's as long as US President Trump admits that it's him (and his war on trade) not his neighbours that's generating this downdraft and counter-cyclical ...

Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
It's not me, it's you! Yes Virginia, you, I and Irene are very well aware of US president Donald J. Trump's Twitter attacks on the Fed. The last, most significant one was right after US Federal chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson ...

Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." - former US President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., 17 September 2002. Yes Virginia, it was the stuff that brought "Bushism" into our collective ...

Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... nations. But there's a precedent Jerome, and its name is the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA), enacted by US president Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 (that replaced the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 ). This led to tit-for-tat lowering ...

Chief economist update: Jerome is in the Hole

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2019
... be Jerome's biggest test since he assumed the Fed chairmanship since February 2018 - nominated by no less than US President Donald Trump himself. Two things are certain. One, Jerome would be careful not to disappoint financial markets that are expecting ...

Chief economist update: Tweeting Trump versus totalitarian Xi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2019
US president Donald Trump is envious of Chinese president Xi Jinping. Perhaps it's P-envy (I don't have to spell the word, my head will be summarily chopped off), but US President Trump admitted as much about a year and half ago and before he ...

Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... tit (allowing the yuan to fall below the psychological threshold of CNY7.0/US$1) highlights just how determined the US president is to win the trade war. Yes Virginia, China's officially a "currency manipulator" in America's eyes - not when it ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... picture" has almost immediately evolved into something less than pleasant a day after Powell uttered these words. US president Trump's tweet on August 1 made it so. According to @realDonaldTrump: "The U.S. will start, on September 1st, putting a ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2019
... their games - as they have for many years!" - 7:21 am - 3 Jul 2019 This is the latest tweet from @realDonaldTrump aka US President Donald J. Trump. POTUS is really upping up the ante in his war with the rest of the world in his quest to make "America ...