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Economic recap: Week to September 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is concerned but not alarmed at the growing cases of Delta variant infections that's wreaking havoc on the lives and livelihood in Australia's two biggest states - New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria (VIC). ...

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... Independent, before the US recession of 2001. Before the 'Great Recession' of 2008, 'El Maestro' Fed chief Alan Greenspan testified before the US Congress in February 2005, where he effectively discounted the bond market as irrational ...

Chief economist update: The Fed should act now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
When I was an economics student, I never much cared about economic history. What good does economic history offer? The agricultural revolution gave way to the revolution in industry and now... the tech revolt. Surely, things and the way of doing things ...

Chief economist update: A question of when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... same year that again proved too late to staunch the great recession of 2008. The year before, then Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan called it the "interest rate conundrum" - a state where the long end isn't responding to the Fed's rate hikes - and ...

Chief economist update: Finding neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... but my point is that no one really knows where the neutral level of interest rate lies. As former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan quipped during his heydays, "It's very difficult to know where that so-called neutral rate is. But we probably will know ...

Chief economist update: Fed flattens the yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... the yield curve consistently flattened from 2.7% in 2003 before becoming inverted by 2006. At the time, Fed chief Alan Greenspan called it the "interest rate conundrum" - a state where the long end isn't responding to the Fed's rate hikes - and ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... Bernanke, Yellen, Powell - and 12 years later, financial markets still haven't completely shaken off 19 years of Alan Greenspan's Fedspeak. "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realise that what you heard is not ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... or those a few weeks ago and so they're better able to anticipate what we could do". We've gone a long way from Alan Greenspan's, "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I ...

Beige Book report delivers known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... speculators and investors to second-guess the Fed. No more Fedspeak - the term famously described in former Fed chief Alan Greenspan's quote, "I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realise that what you heard is ...

Inflated attention on September US CPI inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... forecasts and began to frame its inflation projections in terms of the PCE price index. This shift, announced by Alan Greenspan during his testimony to Congress, came after extensive analysis done by the Fed. The conclusion was that the PCE has several ...
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