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Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... less austere and wouldn't make significant in-roads into cutting Australia's debt and deficit. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff wouldn't be happy campers. But judging from post-Budget public opinion, Joey's second try is more politically palatable ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... increase of nearly two percentage points in the unemployment rate. Overseas, the impact was much more severe. Reinhart and Rogoff suggest that the average cost of a banking crisis is a decline in real GDP per person of 9 per cent and a 7 percentage point ...

Irish luck unlocked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... putting growth ahead of austerity. In your face Carmen and Kenneth! Best you not remember them - yes them of the Reinhart and Rogoff infamy. There's sun shining ever so brightly in the Land of the Rising Sun with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his government ...

Austerity can be hazardous to your health

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... the realisation that lesser austerity may not be that bad after all. Especially after the recent debunking of Reinhart-Rogoff and most especially if they're watching the turn of eco stats in Japan. It might still be early days and 'one swallow does not ...

On austerity, growth and expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... what you're thinking. According to Economics 101, economies tend to grow given enough stimulation. Forget Reinhart and Rogoff - last Friday they just did a Dijsselbloem (remember him? he, the Dutch FinMin and Eurogroup head who said that the Cyprus bail ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... fiscal policy. All premised on what later turned out to be a flawed study and conclusion from Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff's work on the relationshi between debt and growth.

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... Composite Index rose 1.9 per cent yesterday despite Harvard University professor and former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff's warning that China's property market is starting to collapse. No, thank you. Not when reports show that Agricultural Bank ...
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