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First quarter stasis and A$ ADHD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... free-floating ones - are an equilibrating force. They bear the pressure from economic adjustments. Just look at the economy of the PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain) and Italy - they're economies bore the brunt of adjustment because they're bound ...

Action!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014
... yesterday, wet its pants and therefore followed my suggestion that, "It must do something, anything... and now." Sure, sure pigs also fly. And did I just hear you doing a Darryl Kerrigan (The Castle), "tell Ben he's dreaming"? But enough of flying pigs ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... first positive year-on-year rate since the fourth quarter of 2011. You'll get to love it even more when you see that the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) have all expanded in the first quarter -- Portugal up by 0.5%, Italy up by 0.1%, Greece ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... matter of when not if.A It has become so after US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded that Syrian president Assad make pigs fly.A "He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week - turn it ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... that missing dude went. But back to the point. The point is that it's Cyprus turn to hold the troika by the cojones. The PIGS have done it so why couldn't they? The troika blinked when much larger sums were involved, what Cyprus is asking for is just ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... of the European debt crisis for a measly bailout saving of a,-7 billion. Juts compare this with the huge sums spent on the PIGS -- a,-78 billion for Portugal; a,-85 billion for Ireland; a,-380 billion bailout spent on Greece; and, a,-41 billion for Spain. ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... strictly complied with strict austerity measures imposed upon it by its benefactors. And look where it is now? It is the only PIGS that have produced positive economic growth. Irish real GDP expanded by 0.8% in the year to the third quarter of 2012 (latest ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... worse, were we not? We were expecting the Eurozone to be no more, or at the very least a slimmer version of itself as the PIGS opt out or are thrown out of the single currency region. Some were expecting the US to head back into recession as trumpeted ...

Greece chooses pain to pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... their decision will only embolden the Germans and strengthen Frau Angie's resolve that austerity is the way to go for all ye PIGS... and Italy. On the flipside, there's a feeling I get that Merkel must be secretly hoping that the Greeks voted the other ...