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Pres Obama proposes sweeping regulatory reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... Reserve, noted the discussion paper. Explaining the reasons for the massive overhaul, President Obama said, "Millions of Americans who have worked hard and behaved responsibly have seen their life dreams eroded by the irresponsibility of others and by ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Happy businesses spend. Spending businesses employ workers. Employed workers become happy consumers. America is happy. Americans spend. America buys from the rest of the world. The world is happy. Well maybe, except Kim Jung Il.

Seeking equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... news in the US housing sector could be sustained going forward. Naysayers point to the rising unemployment rate among Americans to pooh-pooh any sustainable advance. And many - those still with jobs - remain fearful that perhaps tomorrow, next week or ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... Thursday from a heavy selloff a day earlier as investors looked ahead toward economic recovery despite data showing more Americans losing their jobs. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 46.43 points, or 0.56 per cent, to settle at 8,331.32. ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... relatively smaller 17 institutions that were tested -- the US government is testing 19 in all? Now for the good news. Americans are feeling cheerier. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to 39.2 in April - the highest since November ...

Surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... house them all. Host Hotels & Resorts soared 17 per cent and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide jumped 11 per cent. Americans may not be buying houses but they sure are still buying iPhones and iPods - just ask Apple which doubled the sale of these ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... announced this plans to cut the US budget deficit in half by the end of his first term - mainly by raising taxes for Americans earning US$250,000 a year. Now what's a poor rich Briton and poor rich American to do? Save, save, save. That's what they'll ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... already balding head. Investor's Business Daily and TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence reported improving confidence among Americans. The IBD/TIPP index of economic optimism rose to 49.1 in April from 45.3 in the previous month. The economic outlook index ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... game.' What does history tell us? During the Great Depression of the 1930s, new laws were also introduced so that the Americans won't relive the pain and desperation ever again. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 - aimed at protecting jobs at home by raising ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... America' goods, services and assets - already cheapened by the global financial crisis - would be even cheaper to non-Americans. It has already exported the sub-prime meltdown and the credit crisis. Now America's economic problems are also being shipped ...