Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 201 - 210 of 264 results for "Henry"

Depression no more?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... now auction unlimited dollar funds as against their previous capped swap arrangements. Rumours that US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is planning to purchase equity directly from financial firms also generated optimism in the financial markets. European ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely reported ineffectivesness in arguing his administration's own strategy, which was seen as a major contributor ...

Clear focus to drive age pension reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... series of policy and tactical options the IA said the government could consider in its current pensions review and in the Henry Taxation Review. "What we believe should be the purpose of the system is important in how we design it," said Darren Wickham ...

TARP or TRAP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... education. Reduced spending will lead to higher unemployment and slower economic growth. For his part, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stated that, '... this entire proposal is about benefiting the American people, because today's fragile financial ...

Bail-out might breach US constitution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... private firms without adequate national interest justification. The fears highlight the inability so far of Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson to adequately explain how the rescue strategy will address the economic and regulatory breakdown that caused ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... economic growth and job creation. That is why we have taken these actions." With these statement, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced the 'de facto'nationalisation of the country's two mortgage giants - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. On 7 September ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... US$2.25 billion for each company. The Treasury regards the bailout as necessary because, according to US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson: "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play a central role in our housing finance system and must continue to do so in their ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... responsible for a two per cent tumble on Wall Street on Wednesday. Nervous investors found no relief in US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's reassurances Thursday that the two groups were "adequately capitalised" in the face of a "challenging period." ...

End of the world

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... reporters yesterday that he thinks the sub-prime contagion has 12 months to two years left to run. No wonder Treasury chief Ken Henry has just taken off on five weeks annual leave to look after endangered wombats notwithstanding that a Daily Telegraph ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...