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Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... points to 8.75 per cent. This followed the Indonesian government's US$6.6 billion stimulus package. And what about the mother of all these problems? The US economy remains in dire straits as formally acknowledged by President-elect Obama and as indicated ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
"This is a beautiful set of numbers." (Paul Keating). What is? The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) Labour Force report for November of course. But many headlines did not see it that way. Bloomberg headline: Australia Lost 15,600 Jobs, Adding ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... bear. This is why in a week where other central banks were cutting interest rates, the Bank of England (BoE) produced the mother of all rate cuts. Last week central banks in Australia, South Korea, India, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Switzerland and the ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
And so it came to pass. The election of Barack Obama to the highest post in the biggest and most powerful economy of the world would forever be etched into the annals of history - not only in America, but also throughout the entire planet. It is just ...

TARP or TRAP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... positive and a negative -- that could arise as a consequence of the US Congress' passing the US Treasury/Federal Reserve's 'mother of all bail-outs' package. Last night, the Paulson/Bernanke tandem told Congress what they think would happen if the Troubled ...

Borrow from Peter to pay Paul

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
Financial markets' attention remains centred on what the US government's 'mother of all bailouts' will eventually turn out to be and more important, how much it will cost. Just as the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) predicted, equity markets ...

Contribs tax for women under review

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
Senator Nick Sherry's comments on potentially removing the 15 per cent contributions tax on super of women at certain stages of their work life fuels further debate on how the government can help narrow the gender gap on retirement savings. Senator ...

Paid maternity leave must include super: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... introduction of a government rather than employer-funded maternity scheme accompanied by a 'Super Baby Bonus' paid into the mother's nominated super accounts.

First stop baby boomers, next stop Gen-Y

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
The way to the baby boomers' wallets is through their Gen-Y kids, said Bernard Salt, a leading commentator on consumer, cultural and demographic trends. "Generation Y will inherit baby boomer wealth. The motherload is not going to happen for another ...

Power to the under-40s

... now runs a profitable financial planning business only two and a half years since he started. He has even paid back his mother, who believed in his business plan enough to lend him her property as collateral to the $330,000 bank loan he took out as capital. ...