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It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... if it persists, would also put downward pressure on inflation. Having said all these, I still defer to my big namesake, Big Ben Bernanke. He'll sort these out when he speaks before the Bard College at Simon's Rock Commencement, Great Barrington, Massachusetts ...

Follow the money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... is Uncle Ben's QE experiment is working as intended - to encourage investors into riskier assets. It's working so well Big Ben has now convinced his fellow central bankers. The Fed (and the BOE) doesn't have a mandate for direct equity purchases so it ...

Boston Bombs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... ignoring, then you start worrying. What about the tumble in commodities? There are two ways to look at it. The bearish way: Big Ben's QE3, Super Mario's OMT and action man Kuroda's bigger and wider APP are failing in their quest at reflation. This and ...

Why QE3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... financial markets. But don't just take little ben's word for it. I call upon a greater mortal to explain. Over to you Big Ben. In his speech at Jackson Hole last 31 August, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke already expounded on this: "How effective ...

Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... the all-time high reached way back on 9 October 2007. Gold and silver and oil rose. So did US Treasuries. All because Big Ben did a Super Mario - not only in the QE sense but also in assuring the world that he'll do "whatever it takes", in his case ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
Looks like some partygoers have gotten lost on their way to the party - Big Ben's party, that is. Less than 24 hours after Bloomberg Businessweek published this headline, "Fed Stuck at Zero Into 2015, QE Odds Reach 99%" yesterday, screens displaying ...

So where's the QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... they like what they heard, the sound of QE, that is, and it's coming soon to a theatre near you. But is this really what Big Ben said? Or are the markets merely hearing what they wanted to hear? At Jackson Hole, Big Ben reviewed and defended his use ...

Variant Perceptions' variant perception

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
ariant Perceptions' variant perception QE is dead, long live QE! It's the eve of that much-awaited, much-speculated Big Ben QE speak but last night's bigger-than-what-we've-seen-over-past-few-day's fall suggests that participants may have given up on ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
I have a confession to make, all these speculation over whether or not Big Ben will QE or not has got this little ben stumped. For I don't see any point in guessing what's inside the head of the head of the most powerful central bank in the world. Financial ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
If you have something better to do today do that, rather than expending your time reading what took place in financial markets overnight. It was more of the same -- the exact same suspenseful, seemingly endless wait for policymakers to deliver what ...