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Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
The monetary and fiscal masters of the US of A fronted the Senate Banking Committee - as required under the March 2020 COVID-19 relief law - singing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. In his testimony, Federal Reserve chair ...

Bezos steps down at Amazon

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
... hard to put attention on anything else." He said he plans to focus on the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin and The Washington Post among other passions. "I've never had more energy, and this isn't about retiring. I'm super passionate about the impact I ...

Chief economist update: Biden cooks Donald's duck

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... that soon (by January next year) would replace the unpredictable, unconventional, unstable Donald Trump who the Washington Post labelled "Commander in Tweets". "He has used it to announce policy, move markets, attack the press, dispute reports, insult ...

Bezos adds billions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... and privacy concerns. Alongside Amazon, Bezos also owns space exploration company Blue Origin and newspaper The Washington Post which he bought for $250 million in 2013. Bezos' ex-wife also saw a surge in her wealth, after obtaining a 4% stake in Amazon ...

Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... starting to emerge in Texas, Florida, and California. This is in addition to Factset's report (quoting the Washington Post ) that: "Texas, Arkansas, South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, Florida and Utah all set new highs in seven-day ...

Chief economist update: Cloudy 2020 vision for OECD

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... going to land and how that's going to impact the overall economy," GM chief executive Mary Barra told the Washington Post. The OECD prescribes: "If downside risks materialise and global growth looks set to be significantly weaker than projected ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... didn't offer any radical change on the treaty but merely a small incremental improvement. So much so that even the Washington Post likened it to "pouring old wines into new bottles." That may be, but according to the Washington Post's "Wonkblog" ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... remain. And then, there's the not so small issue of the Fed getting its forecasts correct. Dylan Matthews of the Washington Post tracked it last year in his piece titled, "This graph shows how bad the Fed is at predicting the future".A See it here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/19/this-graph-shows-how-bad-the-fed-is-at-predicting-the-future/. ...

Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... face of such economic uncertainty, suggesting growth could weaken again." The 'Editorial Board's" column at the Washington Post is cause for concern warning that, "The West must prepare for a wounded Putin to become even more aggressive" because "the ...

One-third of US federal workers could retire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... last year, almost three times the number that retired in in 2009 when the GFC was in full swing, reported The Washington Post. The retirement rush coincides with more signs the US economy is emerging out of its slowdown although there are fears of renewed ...
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