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Chief economist update: Confidence down, conditions up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
Et tu, Brute? The Australian version of the Shakespearean drama, Julius Caesar, that saw Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull politically assassinated (and replaced with the Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison) in the dying days of August may have played a ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... March". This quote had always been imbued with a sense of foreboding because this day marked the assassination of Julius Caesar back in 44 BC. It shouldn't be for the "ides" was just the fancy way Romans termed the 15th day of March, May, July and October ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
"Alea iacta est"! "The die is cast". This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion ...

Unknown unknowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... assassinated by a group of conspirators, including Brutus and Cassius." Shakespeare immortalised this quote in his opus "Julius Caesar" and has since meant a foreboding of oncoming danger. "The "ides" of March is the fifteenth." And on 15 March 2011 ...

The Ides of March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... a festive day celebrating the Mars, the god of war. In modern times it has taken on an ominous sense ever since Julius Caesar's assassination on this date have been foretold by his soothsayer warning him to 'Beware the Ides of March.' And so it was. ...

Weekly economic roundup

To paraphrase the soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, 'Beware the Ides of October,' because the largest market crashes in history (1929 and 1987) happened in October and even 2005 has just felt the same winds. As if on cue, the advent of October ...
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