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Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... the global economy into a double dip. Ben Bernanke, for one, knows this all too well. He is an expert of the Great Depression of the 1930s. He knows too well how the US economy plunged back into contraction when the Roosevelt administration raised taxes ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... the stars or asking that hell freeze over. For if these could be achieved, it would have happened after the Great Depression of the 1930s. It would have happened after each and every recession the world has experienced. But no, after every suffering ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... popular clamour, fiscal and monetary authorities are very much aware of the policy mistakes that extended the Great Depression of the 1930s. The bulls will be spinning a win - at least for now.

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... at 40 per cent of gross national product - were among the policy mistakes that prolonged and deepened the Great Depression of the 1930s. Better the threat of having one or two As taken away from AAA than falling back into a downward economic spiral. ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... reform. Not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules of the 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 ...

Crisis on Facebook

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... The Web 2.0 has spawned Depression 2.0, a social networking site where individuals discuss a return to the Great Depression of the 30s. Financial planners and fund managers who want to spar with their overseas counterparts on the merits or flaws of the ...

Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... Investors have already factored in that the current financial market upheaval could turn out to be a repeat of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Is there any other bad news that has not been factored into the market -- short of speculating that we are ...

Sub-prime Godzilla tramples Japan

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... pretty spectacular, with absolute house prices, the countrywide average, falling for the first time since the great depression of the 1930s. In its first credit crunch post-mortem - the quarterly inflation report - the Bank of England is sure to take ...
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