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Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... 'Super Mario' for doing "whatever it takes" to revive the Eurozone economy from the global financial crisis and Grexit but as the ECB's balance sheet shows, Madam Lagarde has supersized this. Just as we were advice not to fight the Fed, I ...

Chief economist update: Annus horribilis with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... compared with COVID-19. Ex-BOE governor Mark Carney must be thanking his lucky stars he only had to deal with the GFC and Grexit and Brexit. Andrew Bailey, who succeeded Carney effective 16 March 2020 (three days after the World Health Organisation declared ...

Chief economist update: Stimulus measures ease extreme fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... fear gauge - has come down from a record high of 82.69 in March (higher than its GFC peak) to around 45.41 (lower than the Grexit peak). This could be in response to the US government's fiscal stimulus - worth around 11% of GDP to date - and the ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... authorities from member nations continue their gabfest. There's familiar discussion we've witnessed during the time of Grexit, with problem countries arguing for increased deficit spending and fiscally-responsible Germany refusing. The ECB fought ...

Chief economist update: Great Scott! Mighty Mo to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... Draghi when he did "whatever it took" to save the splintering of the single currency region from splintering due to the "Grexit" contagion. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison may have been just politicking when he announced several bushfire recovery ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's trade war -- and other challenges in-between ...

Chief economist update: UK is now Bailey's baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... forecasts show inflation slightly weakening to 1.25% at the end of 2020. Then again, Carney's job was made difficult by Grexit (just before he was appointed BOE Governor), then Brexit, then US-China trade war, among others... and now, the coronavirus ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let's not rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... month of below 100 readings (pessimists outnumber optimists) and the lowest reading since July 2015 - the days of wine and Grexit. Wait there's more. According to the consumer sentiment report: "Since the lows of the Global Financial Crisis where ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... for nothing (yes, I was the first to call him that!). Eurozone GDP growth started to improve from the recession borne of Grexit and fears of contagion in 2013 to a peak of 3.0% annual growth in the December quarter of 2017 (the fastest growth rate prior ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... bring monetary policy back to normality, that is, reducing system-wide liquidity. We only have to look back at the GFC and Grexit and Japanese deflation and everything in between to realise that the world had had bigger challenges back then than the ...
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