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Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
If there is one proof that no one can fight against nature, it is the Americans and shopping. Yes Virginia, they continue to shop in stores and and even online! And they're not only window-shopping... they are actually exchanging money for goods and ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... version where instead of only financial institutions, whole national government's heads are included for extra fun. Yes Virginia, just when we thought that the Fed has whack the head of deflation and unemployment in the United States of America with ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... pride of the nation. It came oh so close to parity with the greenback. And parity is just an "i" removed from party. Yes Virginia, it's all over cyberspace... the Australian dollar is just a few small ticks away from becoming even stevens with the American ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... thousand mothers' eyes". "War! It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker. War! It's got one friend, that's the undertaker..." Yes Virginia, this long drawn-out climb out of the abyss of the deep recession has frustrated governments of all stripes and colours ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... before the seventh moon of 2010 is over, the US stock market is on course for its biggest September gain in 71 years. Yes Virginia, if you've heard of statistical aberrations or exceptions to the rule, September 2010 is turning out to be just that. After ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... dollar will be gained or lost. Or perhaps, I should say, another week, another dollar gained, then lost, then... Yes Virginia, such is the financial markets' current collective myopia that while there had been a lot of shakin' goin on after every piece ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... most of 2010, something evil this way comes... or more accurately, the same evil returns to haunt. Europe redux. Yes Virginia, Europe is back. Back in the headlines. Back on red alert. Back to spook our pants off... this time, scarier than the first. ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds from its profitable portfolio of mortgage-backed securities into ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would conclude with a kinder surprise - a.k.a. quantitative easing. Yes Virginia, Wall Street's hoping and wishing and praying that the Fed would announce some sort of stimulus to rev up growth and ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Double-dip here we come! Yes Virginia, we're on our way back to the abyss. This, if you believe the talking heads and the written words on the financial media after the latest update on US employment hit trading screens last Friday night. The numbers. ...