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Chief economist update: Australian recession here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." This quote, attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth - daughter of former US President Teddy Roosevelt - had me struggling on whether or not to submit my daily rant for today. ...

Chief economist update: Trump should read Frank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... there's a precedent Jerome, and its name is the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA), enacted by US president Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 (that replaced the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 ). This led to tit-for-tat lowering of tariffs around ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... rising from 8.0% (when the Smoot-Hawley tariff was passed in 1930) to 16% in 1931 and 25% in 1932-33. It was only after Roosevelt replaced Hoover and signed the "Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act" in 1934 -- reducing tariff levels and promoting trade liberalization ...

US considers retirement reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... proposed that the retirement age be indexed to gains in longevity and raised to 68 by 2050 and 69 by 2075. "When Franklin Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, average life expectancy was 64 and the earliest retirement age in Social Security was ...

Juice flow to continue in 2010

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2010
... expert of the Great Depression of the 1930s. He knows too well how the US economy plunged back into contraction when the Roosevelt administration raised taxes, cut back spending and tightened monetary policy in 1937 in efforts to restore the federal ...

Subsidise financial advice: Shiller

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... as GDP-linked bonds that hedge against the big risks facing investors. Referring to how former US President Theodore Roosevelt rescued Americans from the Great Depression, Shiller said the government's bail-out package is not enough. The Obama administration ...
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