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Chief economist update: Trump's beggar thy neighbour policy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
Another month, another strong US labour market report. The time before US President Donald Trump would have had consumers, businesses and investors everywhere dancing in the streets and singing hallelujah. This is due to the rationale that the US economy's ...

Chief economist update: Blame the US economy for the widening trade gap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2018
From "fake news", US President Donald Trump might label the Census Bureau's numbers on "International Trade in Goods" as "fake stats". It refutes his claim in March that "trade wars are good, and easy to win." The report shows America's balance ...

Chief economist update: Small business is big business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... look at the jobs. It's all about small business... Small business is really big." These were the words of US President Donald Trump when he spoke at the 75th Anniversary of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) in Washington in ...

Chief economist update: Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
Forget John Maynard Keynes. Forget David Ricardo. A new economic sheriff is in town and his name is Donald J. Trump. POTUS has gone against Keynes' counter-cyclical prescription by increasing fiscal spending - tax cuts and increased expenditure ...

Chief economist update: No sweat says BOC on Trump tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
US President Donald Trump has again upped the rhetoric against China (which of course, brought back trepidation over an escalation of the trade war) and most recently he went on attack against his own central bank - the US Federal Reserve. Apparently ...

Chief economist update: What goes around is starting to get around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... lose-lose proposition. In his quest to "make America great again" and under the guise of "national security", US President Donald Trump kicked off with a 25% tariff on steel and 10% on aluminium imported into America, followed by a 25% tariff on US$34 ...

Chief economist update: The Goldilocks rate of interest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
... already know and have speculated about since the US central bank's June policy meeting or in former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld words - they're known knowns. He was optimistic on growth (as he should): "Incoming data show that, alongside ...

Chief economist update: Draining the swamp

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
"We're going to drain the swamp." This was one of US President Donald Trump's battle cry when he was still campaigning for the top job in America. It looks like he's on his way to fulfilling this promise but instead, Trump's draining ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... and monetary policies and by extension, capital expenditure and financial markets. It's more crucial now because of Donald Trump. Recall his statement back in December 2017, "So we're at 3.3% GDP. I see no reason why we don't go to 4%, 5% ...

Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities If I didn't know better, I would say that Charles Dickens was describing US President Donald Trump's mind. Just look at the events of the past week which started with Trump revoking his endorsement of the agreed ...