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'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... searching the selection. The search item was not found. Do you want to search the remainder of the document?" Yes please, sir. Nah, it still couldn't find "patient" - or "patience" - in the Fed's monetary policy statement (that I copied and pasted into ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception." -Sophocles Breakfast wasn't nice for me yesterday. Nah, Virginia, it wasn't because the toast was burnt or the bacon and eggs semi-cooked. It's because I was eating my own words with my foot in my ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... weakest in a quarter of a century, the missed target 7.4% GDP growth in 2014 headlines that prompted the PBOC to act. But nah, an exclusive report published by Reuters on 28 January tells of PM Li now liking 7% growth. He's set to announce this "at the ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... Australia - so is the weakening Australian dollar. Being one of the very few select countries still rated AAA says it all. But nah, Australia is doomed! We're already in an "income recession" and wishing ourselves into that formal definition of one - ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... the quarter and 3.1% over the year. We should be shouting and singing glory, glory hallelujah and dancing the macarena. But nah, Virginia. In keeping up with our whinging, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist, Saul Eslake, threw the media a ...

Santa came to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2014
... and was turning around, Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound." -- Clement Moore, 'Twas the Night before Christmas' Nah, 'tis still a month away but not only jolly old St. Nick but also Santa Claus came to town -- one putting presents of cheer ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
"Having money isn't everything, not having it is." - Kanye West Nah Virginia, at my (middle) age, I'm not one who enjoys hip hop, techno, punk, goth or beats... let alone rap. But yankee-doodle-dandy rapper Kanye's words aptly describe the fall and ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... central bankers came and (re)played it all again. "I get knocked down but I get up again, you're never going to keep me down". Nah Virginia, the world's biggest central banks didn't lift a finger, they merely used their collective jawbones to do the ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... day before last night. Could it be that the deceased feline hasn't drop far enough (and so the small teenie weenie bounce)? Nah, it wasn't that. It was what A St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said around lunchtime that sent the ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... the point of going out, we're just going to end up back here anyway?" Must give it to Homer, he really spits out good logic. Nah, not the literary giant that penned the Iliad and the Odysssey, but Homer the Simpson. Homer's words came to mind when I ...