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Majority wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
... whole column naming their names and proclaiming their correct call. We're zeroes. How could the majority - the other 23 (errr, 24 if you include moi) -dismal scientists get it wrong? Me and my 'Taylor Rule'... pffft. "Gov Glenn did it to mess with your ...

From oil at US$300 to oil at US$30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
... I typed, "Sliding oil price would stop the slide in the oil price" in this space last week. But back to oil forecasting, errr... extrapolation. We've seen this before. I've forgotten about this but thanks to google I found a piece I wrote back on 9 March ...

Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... clarity that interest rate increases are likely to be gradual and limited." Get ready for an interest rate lift off then? Well, errr... not quite. This is because the monetary policy council (MPC) judges that there's around 1.0% slack in the economy ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... turn to sentiment and then the economies if the "new masters of the universe" hadn't done what they did. All is well now... errr, perhaps but we're not done with October yet. While we're waiting let's talk about chocolate biscuits and animal spirits. ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... States but is shared broadly across many advanced economies." Happy Easter to all and most especially to you Aunt Janet... errr, Knight Janet!

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... economy's momentum still has traction but not good enough to prompt the Fed to bring forward interest rate hikes which is... errr, good. Still, despite the big picture remaining as it was when we left it in March, financial markets bobbed up and down ...

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... becoming increasingly worried that its 7.5% GDP growth target - give or take - may be at risk. And what's a government to do? Errr, forget rebalancing towards consumption for awhile and get back to what worked before, that's what. Go back to exports... ...

Pickle wrapped in a bind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
... secede from Ukraine and return to Russia with love. Ukraine's new government, Europe and the United States were up in arms (errr, so to speak), decrying the referendum as illegal. Washington issued a statement declaring that the international community ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) yesterday released numbers that are closest to everyone's hearts (errr, pockets) but you won't know it gauging from the financial markets' reaction. Australian equities rose a bit (plus 0.3% on the ASX 200) ...

Oh what a feelin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... vehicle) Asian imports." It's plain and simple and to be expected.A You don't need a quantum physicist to divine this nor... errr, an "up-date" in Bachelor of Economics. The reactions are equally expected! What happens now? Australia's doomed! We're ...
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