Category Archive: Op-Eds

Dunno Why Singapore Government Bonds are One of the Worst Performers in the World this Year

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While we are still on boycott crusade, Deliveroo lost another customer this week, when a friend complained about how her free 20 dollar voucher expired because she did not manage to activate it… Continue reading

Warning – Hedging is Hard Work

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Excuse us for being just a little paranoid but it has been a tough week that has continued from 2 weeks ago when we were vacillating between feeling gloom or doom after an… Continue reading

The Singapore Monetary Policy Statement and the Thankless Job of Central Banking – Thank You, MAS !

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photo courtesy of Ms Su Tan of HK, taken on a wine tour of Sicily.   October is looking to be a painful month with an estimated US$ 876 billion wiped off bond… Continue reading

Nobody is Going to Actually Notice if Sibor is Higher

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Happy versus Unhappy People World happiness levels are at a 10 year low, according to a Gallup survey, as US stock markets powered to a record high on this Autumn Equinox. Yes, we… Continue reading

Running Out of Ideas a Decade After Lehman Brothers

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Why do we have all these 2020 downturn stories and Ray Dalio with a new book, A Template for Understanding Debt Crises, that he is giving away as a free PDF, all calling… Continue reading

The Question of Our Privacies, Facebook or Tencent ?

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It would have been just perfect, on hindsight, to have taken that Easter break in the past week, to go sweep the ancestral tombs and spend the rest of the time off-line instead… Continue reading

Not Really About The Singapore Spring Monetary Policy Statement

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April 2018 is probably the best month to have a non-G3(+China) central bank meeting because no one would be paying much attention to you in such times of market upheaval amidst geopolitical uncertainties.… Continue reading

Ad Hoc Commentary: Dodd-Frank rollbacks to fix monetary transmission via FX Swap

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Monetary policy transmission is broken today as measured by the FX swap implied rate of US dollar versus Interest on Excess Reserves rate. Those who are still looking at Libor versus Fed Funds… Continue reading

Lunar New Year Special : Let The Dogs Out

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The Real Face of 2018 What a difference a week makes when we have a dear friend of mine deciding she needed those 2-dollar notes for her ang pows after all.  She just… Continue reading

An Essay on Artificial Intelligence, Stupidity and the Markets

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