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Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... why had Wall Street used this stat as one of the reasons to sell last night? The answer, my friend, lies in John Maynard Keynes' "Savings Paradox" or the "Paradox of Thrift". Long gone Johnny explained how this is not good for the economy many, many ...

The long and short of bulls and bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
Yesterday, I engaged in ping-pong with three of the fresh thinkers in the investment industry. Email ping-pong, that is. Discussions of Stella (the beer), cognacs and cigars aside, D.R. Beare - not his real name - opened serve with an email bagging ...

The Venus solution

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Like everywhere else around the globe, Japan's equity markets have rebounded from the extreme pessimism that marked the low point of the global financial crisis back in March 2009. At the end of August, the Nikkei-225 index has risen by 48.7 per cent ...

Black or white - just beat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... At the same time, Wall Street is willing Americans to spend and ditch savings. The answer. We are living under what JM Keynes the 'Paradox of Thrift'. Simply stated, if every person increases their savings in times of recession, aggregate demand will ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... protectionism and calls to cap/reverse growing national budget deficits. There will be no future if the present isn't fixed. And JM Keynes words will again ring true, ' in the long run we're all dead'.

Five minutes of sunshine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... present point, there is virtually no return on cash investment. Certainly there will be problems in the long-run...but as J.M Keynes said, 'in the long run we're all dead.' 'The trend is your friend!' This has been most popularly applied during the days ...

Savings paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... churn to keep production activity going. In the field, this is known as the 'paradox of thrift' theorised by John Maynard Keynes (for a man who's been dead for more than 60 years, he is getting a lot of coverage these days). According to Wikipedia, 'the ...

Riccardian equivalence redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... Rationale or not, who would save money for tax payables in the long run? Wasn't it another great economist - John Maynard Keynes - who said that, in the long run, we're all dead? Well, the long run has come, and Americans are not dead, so they have to ...

Bail-out Plan B

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... future. But now is when the problem is most acute and pressing. And after all, as that other great economist - John Maynard Keynes - said, 'in the long run, we're all dead.'

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
The Australian equity market continues to follow the fortunes of its peers in America, Europe and Asia although economic and business fundamentals here are in much better shape than most of its global counterparts. So far this year, developed equity ...