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Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... expanded the sanctions they've imposed on Russia reminded me of that ancient Spanish torture weapon - the garrotte. Wikipedia describes the garrotte as "a practice of strangulation by which the condemned was tied to a wooden stake with a looped section ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... international sanctions and/or military action lies with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). However, according to Wikipedia, "Under Article 27 of the UN Charter, Security Council decisions on all substantive matters require the affirmative votes ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... market workers would always be willing to lower their wages to a level where employers could profitably offer them jobs" (Wikipedia). That's fine. But that's also so 19th century before the wages of the CEO was tied to company profitability and the company's ...

Emerging emerging markets concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014

Airline crash investigation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013

Mohammad goes to mountain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013

Fed speaks Fedspeak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... clarity of Fed communication of the Fed's intention on monetary policy a long time ago? The original meaning (according to Wikipedia) is that "the term Fedspeak (also known as Greenspeak) is what Alan Blinder called "a turgid dialect of English" used ...

Fed sorted easy, now for the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... another one coming this week for this week is budget ceiling "sequestration" discussion (brinkmanship?) week. According to Wikipedia (yeah I know, I know), "Sequestration involves setting a hard cap on the amount of government spending within broadly-defined ...

Any reason will do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... others. They just have to look at what happened to Zimbabwe when it printed tonnes of its currency. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia, "As of November 2008, unofficial figures put Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate at 516 quintillion percent, with prices ...