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Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... visit in "early October" during a telephone call on Thursday morning Beijing time with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, according to a statement from China's Ministry of Commerce. A cautious ...

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... stronger, and ultimately I want to see a strong dollar." Never mind that it contracted what his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declared a day before at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mnuchin said he welcomed a weaker US dollar because ...

Chief economist update: Talking trade tariffs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018
... world will be watching what comes out of the two-day meeting between the US delegates, led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and China, headed by Vice Premier Liu He, in Beijing. At this point, not many expect a substantial breakthrough in the negotiations ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... dropped 1.0% overnight - taking its 2018-to-date decline to minus 3.2% -- on the back of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's comments At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that, "Obviously a weaker dollar is good for us as it relates to ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... their tax plan this week predicted it will widen the budget gap over the next 10 years." US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin argues that the additional economic growth (ergo, more government revenue) that would be generated by the tax cuts would offset ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... of Congress, where he, hopefully, will deliver the details of his reflationary policies. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has hinted that POTUS will talk about his tax-reform plan - corporate and personal income tax reform. The US equity market had ...
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