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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: July 2008
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Merrill Takes $5.7 Billion Writedown, Temasek to Buy $3.4 Billion of Stock. Temasek has pumped in US$900million into Merrill again as committment of US$3.4bn worth of stock. The people there are sure optimistic about the seemingly gloomy future economy. Merrill had already raised 15.3 billion from capital markets earlier this year, including share sales to the giant sovereign wealth fund Temasek. Today's announce...
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: Temasek Portfolio falls 31%
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Sunday, February 15, 2009. Temasek Portfolio falls 31%. Almost anyone can achieve a relatively 'beat-the-market-major-stock-indices' portfolio as long as it is relatively diversified especially in today's economic climate where bad news land upon bad news. Probably I am wrong to say that, and itself a naive, unsupported suggestion, but a decline is a decline. By stating:. So what are they trying to say? This brings me to the topic of fi...
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: October 2008
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Thursday, October 23, 2008. Comments on Samsung F480. Ok, this is not an economics topic, or anything related to my 'original posts'. I test drive a Samsung HP F480 and part of the condition attached is I have to do a review of the HP in my blog. So here it goes:. Aesthetically appealing (I love the leather cover and the half metal casing looks cool). Small and Light (although Ultra edition still trumps.). The small screen of F480 means...
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: August 2008
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Sunday, August 17, 2008. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). If you have any comments, you may send me an email at economicsjournalist@gmail.com. Thank you. View my complete profile. Economic Society of Singapore. NTU Division of Economics. NUS Department of Economics. SMU School of Economics. Either you are my friends or I go to your blog often. Let's Go for a Walk.
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: Are foreign workers any good?
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Friday, November 21, 2008. Are foreign workers any good? No, I do not really want to debate on the merits and/or pits and falls of having foreign workers in the country. No doubt, they have their merits, although it's hard to educate the man on the street to understand the economics behind this. But I do think that the the social cost, which are mostly intangible especially in the initial stage, have to be considered. And then the contr...
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: Been Busy: Gov't Spending is No Free Lunch
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Wednesday, February 4, 2009. Been Busy: Gov't Spending is No Free Lunch. I haven't been posting for a long time ever since I left Singapore. Time isn't really on my side and I have been busy with work and studies. There is, however, one interesting article that I think it's worth a read. For the macronians, quoted entirely from WSJ written by Robert J. Barro:. The theory (a simple Keynesian macroeconomic model) implicitly assumes that t...
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: September 2008
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Financial Downturns = Opportunities? Just when Warren Buffet fans can still recall the guru saying that he won't touch IBs as they are overpriced, the news today scream "Buffet to Invest $5 billion in Goldman". So what do you think about the US government pumping in more than US$700 bn into the money market and the curb down on short selling? Firstly, where does the US Government gets that much money?
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: October 2009
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Friday, October 2, 2009. Singapore loses out as UBS stumbles. Thanks JJ for providing me some materials to add on this dead blog. LOLZ. Singapore loses out as UBS stumbles. JOYCE KOH AND NETTY ISMAILSeptember 30, 2009. THE Government of Singapore Investment Corp's assets fell more than 20 per cent in the year to March 31 as a collapse in financial markets slashed the value of its stake in the investment bank UBS. The lion city was prett...
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: March 2009
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Monday, March 30, 2009. Article: Saying the Obvious. This is an article by Jeremy Siegel, a very renown professor in Wharton. But when I read through this article, the thing that strikes my mind is: Isn't he saying the obvious? US stocks raised eyebrows this week and last, closing higher in six of seven trading days, including four in a row from March 10 to 13. But how does the market look for the longer term? Knowledge@Wharton: It soun...
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Economics: Facts? Fiction?: Cost of Living
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Analyzing the world through economics. Facts or fiction, you decide. Sunday, November 16, 2008. This is kinda random. I was reading through Bloomberg when this heading attracted me. Cost of Living in U.S. Probably Dropped by the Most in Almost Sixty Years. Prices May Have Tumbled as Economy Sank: U.S. Economy Preview. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). If you have any comments, you may send me an email at economicsjournalist@gmail.com. Thank you. View my complete profile. Are foreign workers any good?