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Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... Monetary Fund (IMF) by coming out with a prediction that the global economy would contract 'for the first time since World War II, with growth at least 5 percentage points below potential'. What the magnitude of the contraction is and what the potential ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... Nationalization is especially difficult in Germany because of its past. The Nazis seized properties owned by the Jews during World War II. And after it, East Germany socialised most private properties. It remains a democracy. America too has taken over ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... Asian nations whose economies have grown over the last couple of decades. The IMF was set up about 60 years ago after World War II to help manage exchange rates and the international financial system and is seen as being largely influenced by US and ...

Daily Economic Update

... given the near record unemployment and an expected increase in VAT. German unemployment is still close to a post-World War II record of 12 per cent reached in March this year. Furthermore, job cuts at some of the country's largest companies could see ...
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