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Chief economist update: Famous last words

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2018
... is because it reminds me of that famous (infamous) statement made by the well-known US economist and statistician Irving Fisher a year short of nine decades ago (1929). Wall Street was breaking record at the time, prompting Fisher to declare that stock ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... now, I'm having a good time, I'm having a ball" is now playing in my head and I'm tempted to repeat Yale economist, Irving Fisher's statement way back in October 1929: "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." A few weeks ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... goes all the way back to the Great Depression when well-known US economist and Yale University economics professor Irving Fisher declared that, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Only days later... a mighty thud heard ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... it is different and why these manias would go on indefinitely. The most remarkable of all is American economist Irving Fisher's declaration that 'Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.' What happened? A few days later ...
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