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Spend, spend, spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2013
... early 2000. Australians' new-found predilection towards savings is not doing the economy any good. Recall John Maynard Keynes' 'Paradox of Thrift'. In simple terms, it means that if people don't spend, companies don't earn. If companies don't earn, they ...

While America was shuttered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
We now resume normal programming, now that the 2013 season of Washington's "when the shutdown meets the ceiling" theatre is over. Let's watch the China channel. The economy's going where PM Li likes it to be - GDP growth quickened to 7.8% in the third ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... Massachusetts on "Economic Prospects for the Long Run". Hope it's not the "in the long run, we're all dead" my man, John Maynard Keynes, talked about.

Austerity can be hazardous to your health

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Keynes & Riccardo on display

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... prior to September 2008 and 1.4% in 2005. This explains the US economy's tepid growth and a testament to JMK (John Maynard Keynes) "Paradox of Thrift". It's also proving David Riccardo's theorem. In simple terms, the Riccardian equivalence theory posits ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... Central Bank and Germany also looks like they're beginning to see my point of view (and my attachment to JMK- John Maynard Keynes) - more focus on growth and less on austerity. According to Bloomberg, "Chancellor Angela Merkel backed European Central ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... learned their lesson. They said so at the summit before last week's summit. They were going for growth. They're going back to Keynes. This was on 30 January 2012. Here's what Thomson Reuters printed back then: "The summit -- the 17th in two years as ...

Stirrings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... that the Eurozone could not survive by austerity measures alone. Is Europa beginning to again embrace JMK? John Maynard Keynes and his government deficit spending model (during recession) had become so unpopular over the past few years because "it only ...

Ben calls on JMK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... future is just dumb, if the short-term present goes down the drain. For "in the long run, we are all dead" John Maynard Keynes (JMK)