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Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... Hip, hip... Mo' money for you and for me and the entire human race. Yes Virginia, be happy for even 'the maestro' (Alan Greenspan) has reappeared on Bloomberg Television go forth and buy. "In a sense, we are actually at relatively low stock prices...So-called ...

Peace, be still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
... methinks we've returned to Fedspeak with Bernanke speaking in tongues. Remember this quote attributed to 'the Maestro' Alan Greenspan, "I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... is nigh? Uncle Ben said so. Or did he? That's the $85 billion question isn't it? In the words of "the Maestro" Alan Greenspan, "Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... heart out Swannie. Could it be that "irrational exuberance" has now come to the bond market? But as the old Maestro Alan Greenspan once said: "But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values." He was talking about equities ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... that, or the speculators are back blowing bubbles in the US bond market. But, as in one of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's famous musings, "... how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... American recessions have always been preceded by an inverted yield curve. Here, also recall former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's "interest rate conundrum" talks in the mid-2000's - when the yield curve inverted in 2006 and yet no one even dreamed a recession ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... by another two years. And that spells D-E-F-I-C-I-T. And deficit is no good for the bond market either. Just ask Alan Greenspan. Speaking at NBC's Meet the Press, Greenspan warned that "We've got to resolve this issue," before the deficit - currently ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... economic indicators have weakened over the summer but an economic pause is typical in all recoveries. Just ask Alan Greenspan. What about Wall Street in September? Wall Street will go up, if not it will go down, otherwise it'll be flat.

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... releases over the weekend signalled the continuation of the current trend in the economy - what former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan called "a typical pause that occurs in an economic recovery". But thanks to his successor's "unusually uncertain outlook" ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... my US economic and financial market history, prodded by CNBC's interview with former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on the 1st of July. This is what the Maestro had to say, " What we're looking at is an invisible wall, which we've run into ...