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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 ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
In case you missed it, former US Federal Reserve Alan 'el maestro' Greenspan has just declared Greece dead - well, almost. No way out. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Greenspan declared that the "chances of Greece not defaulting are very ...

Awakening from summer slumber

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... September. This indicates that the economy is waking up from its summer slumber. This reminds me of Alan "the maestro" Greenspan's comments back in the northern hemisphere summer, "What we're looking at is an invisible wall, which we've run into here. ...

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 ...

Strong one, says yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
... predictor of strong economic activity. "Those who don't learn from history..." In early 2005, former Fed chief Alan Greenspan talked about an "interest rate conundrum" in the works as he tried to explain why long-term yields are not following short-term ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
"...I'm finding it very difficult to look into the future and not worry about that." This was Citizen Alan Greenspan talking on Bloomberg Television. Alan was referring to America's "federal debt" and its "capacity to borrow". He must have thought it ...