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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 ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... that, or the speculators are back blowing bubbles in the US bond market. But, as in one of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's famous musings, "... how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... American recessions have always been preceded by an inverted yield curve. Here, also recall former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's "interest rate conundrum" talks in the mid-2000's - when the yield curve inverted in 2006 and yet no one even dreamed a recession ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... releases over the weekend signalled the continuation of the current trend in the economy - what former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan called "a typical pause that occurs in an economic recovery". But thanks to his successor's "unusually uncertain outlook" ...

Moral hazard on Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... US economy from the recession America had to have. Time and again since the days of the Maestro - Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan - authorities bent over backwards to bandage the self-inflicted wounds of gung-ho investment institutions and investors. This ...

Daily Economic Update

... US consumer spending as American's use their increased housing wealth as ATMs. Remember that former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan estimated that about half of MEWs are spent by the US consumer. With the continued lifting of interest rates by the Fed, housing ...

US lifts key interest rate

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2004
... quarter-point overnight as the central bank continued its campaign to keep inflation under control. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee, the panel that sets interest rates, boosted the target for the federal ...

US Fed holds key short-term rate steady

... main short-term interest rate at a 46-year low today in an attempt to keep the US economy humming. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and his Federal Open Market Committee colleagues - the group that sets interest rate policy in the United States - left the ...
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