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Chief economist update: Lock us down Scotty!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
Think your 30-50% year-to-date loss in your equity portfolio is bad? Just wait until all buyers disappear, consumed by a tiny speck of micro-organism. Remember Murphy's Law? "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". Monetary and Keynesian stimulus ...

Chief economist update: Bushfires singe growth, surplus predictions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... drop in the polls to get one going, ''ey'? Just as I scribbled earlier this year, it would take a miracle if Scotty is beamed up in the next elections. Nobody will forget him holidaying and hanging loose in Hawaii while Australia burned. ...

Chief economist update: Weak household consumption now a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... endanger its claim (and myopic thinking) as the government that brought the budget back to surplus. Beam us up higher, Scotty!

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... Morrison government to give up its obsession with a budget surplus and "crowd in" private sector investment. Beam us up Scotty!

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
Beam me up Scotty! That's the underlying message from Australian Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's Budget update where the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report showed the budget deficit beamed up by a cumulative A$10.3 billion over the ...

QE forever and ever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... find that - except for HK and Ebola going viral - we've known about the risks to growth and inflation for many moons now. Scotty didn't just suddenly beam them down onto the financial markets this month. Why this month? Last night's trading activity ...
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