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Fin services GDP share to shrink by 2050

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... and insurance services industry division will continue to be a huge consumer of ICT services for a long time, but the paradox is the likely eventual shrinking of its share of the nation's GDP through efficiencies and competition from abroad (direct competition ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... 4.5% in March. It'll be 5.0% instead, fingers crossed. Makes me think that another one of my fave JMK postulations - the Paradox of Thrift - is asserting itself into the global economy. Long gone Johnny explained how this is not good for the economy ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... not surprised? This sort of numbers proves what I've been typing on my keyboard all along - JMK's (John Maynard Keynes) "Paradox of Thrift". He explained how it would be disastrous for an economy if most of its consumers decide to save instead of spend ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... To top it all, there's now this worldwide antipathy towards debt and deficits. When John Maynard Keynes put forth the "paradox of thrift" back in 1800s, he explained how it would be disastrous for an economy if most of its consumers decide to save instead ...

Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... used this stat as one of the reasons to sell last night? The answer, my friend, lies in John Maynard Keynes' "Savings Paradox" or the "Paradox of Thrift". Long gone Johnny explained how this is not good for the economy many, many moons ago. The paradox ...

Black or white - just beat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... time, Wall Street is willing Americans to spend and ditch savings. The answer. We are living under what JM Keynes the 'Paradox of Thrift'. Simply stated, if every person increases their savings in times of recession, aggregate demand will fall, company ...

UK firm launches planner competition

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
... runner-up will have their profile featured on the institution's website to help them build contacts. "There is a demand/supply paradox within this sector, where the advisory firms find it difficult to recruit high calibre people, yet undergraduates are ...

Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... the economy overall as it needs money to churn to keep production activity going. In the field, this is known as the 'paradox of thrift' theorised by John Maynard Keynes (for a man who's been dead for more than 60 years, he is getting a lot of coverage ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... continue to contract in the months to come and with it pain. Not only for the US but also for the world. It has now become a paradox that Americans are being flooded with money and urged to borrow to spend to solve a problem rooted in over-borrowing ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... exports; it indicates only relative changes between Australia and our foreign trading countries." Professor Fischer said the paradox is akin to the problem identified in 1977 as the Dutch Disease, a term developed by The Economist magazine "to describe ...