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Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
US President Barack Obama is bringing David Riccardo back from the dead. When the US unveiled its first bailout acronym - TARP -- for the financial sector TARP - last year, I wrote about a theory taught us budding economists called the 'Riccardian equivalence.' ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these words right after he signed the US$787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) last ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Fizzler. This is the equity market's verdict on US President Barack Obama's latest salvo on preserving the 'American Dream'. If the Dow's overnight fall to a six-year low is anything to go by, yesterday's unveiling of the US$275 billion Homeowner Affordability ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Yes we can! And again, Yes we can! In trying to make this slogan come true, US President Barack Obama has taken the concept of moral hazard from Wall Street to Main Street. Just one day after he signed his autograph on a piece of paper turning the US$787 ...

Transcending politics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... respective government's latest fiscal dole-outs. Wall Street sat on the fence overnight as investors await the approval of US President Barack Obama's proposed stimulus package. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the legislation tomorrow morning (Australian ...

FPA stops "highly offensive" ads

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has obtained a Federal Court injunction stopping Bannister Mansfield Financial Services and the firm's director from publishing ads featuring the FPA. The FPA's solicitors asked Bannister Mansfield Financial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... points or 2.15 per cent to 3,009.75. TOKYO - Japanese shares gained on Thursday as investors hoped for bold action by US President Obama to nurse the economy back to health after the House of Representatives approved a stimulus package. The Tokyo Stock ...

Oil up, equities down: Feng Shui Index

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
Global equity markets will remain volatile, the cost of oil will rise and US President Barack Obama's popularity will wane are just a few predictions from this year's CLSA Feng Shui Index. Asian investment and brokerage group CLSA's Feng Shui Index ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... the changing of the guards at the White House cannot be faulted. After all, merely having Obama follow the title US President instead of Bush will not immediately make the global financial crisis that is devastating the capitalist landscape go away. ...

The day after tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... magnitude of the global financial crisis is such that it would not magically go away as the name following the title US President changes from Bush to Obama. Tomorrow as Obama's name is being etched in world history, more workers will be handed pink ...