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We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... year. Really? With Fed Chairman Benny under the pump, I don't think he would want to see the experience of the Great Depression repeated under his watch. Not when as President Obama stated in an interview with CNN, "I think we'll be adding jobs, but ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... Chinese yuan is undervalued - both protect their domestic economies while making the rest of the world beggars. Great Depression II here we come. US Federal Reserve Governor (and Depression scholar) Ben Bernanke should sit with Barrack and Jiabao and ...

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 ...

September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2009
... these. Because doomsday will come in September. The fall could be as small as the 1.3 per cent historical average, or as great as the 30 per cent wipe out experienced in the 1930s. Having brought this out into the open and scribbled into equity investors' ...

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 ...