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Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... their economy - one that is sorely needed at this time. But is this the "beggar-thy-neighbour" policy of the Great Depression coming back to haunt? This economic ism is used to describe policy actions pursued by a country aimed at boosting its domestic ...

G-20 reasons to be hopeful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... leaders with conflicting motivations. Yet, there are reasons to be hopeful. Unlike the policy responses of the "Great Depression" vintage, authorities are this time, not in a hurry to remove stimulus measures until the global economy is growing on its ...

Almost Per-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... that they expected nothing less. For changing one of the team captains - especially one who was an expert on the Great Depression - at this stage of the game (when it looks like its winning) only creates uncertainty. The US Senate still has to approve ...

The return of the cocooning consumer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2009
... Australians has changed dramatically since June last year, and it's uncannily similar to the way people saved after the Great Depression, research shows. Research conducted by Retail Finance Intelligence (Rfi) found the return of the 'cocooning' consumer ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... last month of a developing bubble in the housing market. A bubble in a time of a "Great Recession" since the "Great Depression?" Australia's monetary and fiscal stimuli are working. While nominal retail sales fell by 1.4 per cent in June after rising ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... the long run, governments and central banks are forced into a policy mistake. And there are now shades of the Great Depression mistakes emerging such as protectionism and calls to cap/reverse growing national budget deficits. There will be no future ...

Future lies in present

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... for the stars or asking that hell freeze over. For if these could be achieved, it would have happened after the Great Depression of the 1930s. It would have happened after each and every recession the world has experienced. But no, after every suffering ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... an emerging trend that could short-circuit the impending recovery. And its name is protectionism. During the Great Depression, the US Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, raising tariffs on American imports. Didn't work. Never would. Why? Because ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... popular clamour, fiscal and monetary authorities are very much aware of the policy mistakes that extended the Great Depression of the 1930s. The bulls will be spinning a win - at least for now.

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... Sterns, Lehman, Fannie and Freddie, Northern Rock, RBS, Iceland, et al during the darkest economic moment since the Great Depression. The financial system is certainly better positioned now to withstand GM. Don't stop me now. News out last night added ...