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Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... problems. At the end of the day, the US Senate would give its blessing to Ben Bernanke. For the simple fact that, it just doesn't make sense - nor would it help - to change captains in the middle of the storm. Or maybe it is? I'll end it right here and ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... goods and services to come down in the future. No amount of stimulus - monetary or fiscal - provided enough encouragement to make them open their wallets back then. It could happen again this time if - akin to the 1990s -- deflation becomes entrenched. ...

Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... it is worse than the 0.5 to 1 per cent contraction already flagged last month, this is old news. The good news. Bank of America beat earnings forecasts as it reported a 44-cent gain in the first quarter - 11 times more than expectations for a 4-cent ...

Back to the drawing board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2009
... produce plans that would give the American people confidence in their long-term prospects for success" because "We cannot make the survival of our auto industry dependent on an unending flow of taxpayer dollars." Huh? Say that again? "We cannot make ...

Regulate...then regulate some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... comprehensive reform. Not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules of the game.' What does history tell us? During the Great Depression of the 1930s, new laws were also introduced so that the Americans won't relive the pain and desperation ever again. ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... flow of economic and survey data have been bad and deteriorating. What could be worse than news over the weekend that America sacked another 651,000 workers in February, taking the unemployment rate up to 8.1 per cent - the highest in 25 years. Last ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... remarked that some US banks might have to be nationalised for a 'short time.' He was referring to Citigroup and Bank of America. Why he had to qualify his statement with 'for a short time' and why the White House hastened to declare that US authorities ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... Lilliputian characters in the old cartoon 'The Adventures of Gulliver' - line in almost every episode. 'We're doomed, we'll never make it!' But for those in the throes of despair, remember that 'it is always darkest before dawn.' Recessions come... they ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... House cannot be faulted. After all, merely having Obama follow the title US President instead of Bush will not immediately make the global financial crisis that is devastating the capitalist landscape go away. The scale of the problem is huge and it ...

Humpty Dumpty Syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... remain unresolved and economies sinking into recession are growing in number. Putting a new face in the Oval Office will not make these challenges go away. Obama's victory may have engendered hope in the American people but it will not immediately prod ...
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