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QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... soon to a theatre near you! Faster than fiscal spending, more powerful than QE1, able to lift employment and prevent deflation in a single bound! Look up in the sky...it's QE2! Wall Street is abuzz with speculation that the Fed would very, very soon ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... 1980. But where's inflation now? It's still a no show. Recent indications show that inflation remains contained and that deflation is more of a threat for developed economies than rising prices. Japan is already in deflation. Inflation in the US is uncomfortably ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... Yen depreciates, US dollar rises. Tokyo sells more of its products abroad, America sells less. Japan makes inroad into deflation as domestic prices rise because of depreciated yen, the reverse happens in America. Japan's economy strengthens to the detriment ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... Or good investments only if the Fed is anticipating another recession - there's our double dip ladies and gents - or deflation... or both. Bad, bad news. What does this mean for the Australian dollar? I linked this in because of a recent Bloomberg report ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... is putting downward pressure on its sole growth engine - exports - and exacerbating its two decades old battle with deflation. My, oh my! Day 3. That's last night. Wall Street up slightly. Data mixed. Never mind the cheaters in Europe. There are still ...

US needs double the lifeline

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... continued Holt, adding that while "reflation" is not a completely pain-free solution, it is infinitely superior to debt - deflation. "The worst thing that could happen is for people to take money out of equities now and put it into bond funds," Callan ...

Fictional fact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... Asian giants - China is growing so strong to the point of overheating while Japanese growth remains insufficient to end deflation in the economy. Someone once said that, "to ignore the facts doesn't change the facts" but what if no one's sure what the ...

Same song

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... wholesale prices increased by 0.2 per cent in July with the core rate rising by 0.3 per cent. Rising price equals no deflation. No deflation is good. We like no deflation. No deflation equals no double-dip. Duh!!! Wasn't this the conclusion derived from ...