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The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... income recession in the past two quarters". There you go, that dreaded R word. Australia is recession... an income recession! Dear oh dear. It's been 23 years long since Australia has not had a real GDP recession that we have to have a recession one ...

Slides can be fun too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2014
Brent oil up 4.0% to US$72.94 a barrel; WTI oil up 4.9% to US$69.36 a barrel. Is this it? Have we reached bottom oil? Is this the sliding slippery stuff's equilibrium price? Or just a dead feline bounce? As Bob Dylan would sing to you, "the answer my ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Say it again, Homer. "I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!" For those who've just tuned in, Wall Street was going, even sending the S&P 500 index up by 1.3% overnight, until it slipped... on oil. The action du' nuit is captured in Bloomberg's ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... to start taper in September that year. And why shouldn't most? The Fed gave all and sundry the impression that frankly, my dear, it doesn't give a damn to what happens with the rest of the world. Here's what Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart said ...

Carried away by the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... own people, they haven't got a justice system and they want to take over this country. We're not going to let them do it." Dear Clive's ranting, in this case, is more trouble for Australia not China (depending on how seriously the Politburo takes him). ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... the sane man is the fool". But Fed Chair Janet Yellen and the nine "voting" members of the FOMC are certainly no fools - dear James is a non-voting member. And only last week, they told us that, "In determining how long to maintain the current 0 to 1/4 ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
Who said you can't teach new tricks to an old dog? So sowee, I'm not in any way calling dear Aunt Janet Yellen a dog and most certainly not old... it's just that it's the first thing that came to my fast thinning scalp when I was clicking over what ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten