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PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... call devaluation. Looked at in this context, the knee-jerk scares that the skies are falling over China is just that... Johnny Little scares. For sure, Chinese stats have been slowing of late but... by not much. Data released yesterday support this ...

Crowding in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... luckily employed opting to save rather than spend. This takes us back to John Maynard Keynes' "Paradox of Thrift". Long gone Johnny explained how this is not good for the economy many, many moons ago. The paradox states that during times of recession ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
All is clear again on the Wall Street front. Central bank assurances have silenced the Johnny Littles wailing that the sky is falling. We could only imagine now what would have happened to equity markets and in turn to sentiment and then the economies ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... themselves in their furry behinds - if they're followers don't get to them first -- looking back at the scares that weren't. The Johnny Little's were peddling what they peddled best even before 2013 became 2014 - the sky will fall: China would suffer ...

A 1987-style crash cometh (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
The Johnny Littles of the financial market world are once more coming out of the woodworks, proclaiming that, "A crash is coming, a crash is coming"! They point to the biotech and social media stocks that are fast running out of puff that could produce ...

Out of the woods and into?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... disappeared Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) Sun-shiny day." -- Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" Remember contagion? Sure you do. We all feared it when itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie Greece threatened ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... lonely word. Everyone is so untrue." - Billy Joel, Honesty "There won't be a GST under the government I lead" promised Johnny Howard before being elected prime minister of Australia. "There won't be a carbon tax in a government I lead" promised Julia ...

Fearing the unknown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... America lost its AAA-rating. All these were extrapolated to 'the sky is falling'. And to this day, we're still waiting. Johnny Little's back again. The elections in France and Greece have injected fresh uncertainty to an already uncertain future for ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... another one of my fave JMK postulations - the Paradox of Thrift - is asserting itself into the global economy. Long gone Johnny explained how this is not good for the economy many, many moons ago. The Paradox states that during times of recession, if ...