William R. Thomson

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• The Beginning of the End?

  Published 25 June 2007 | viewed 6,874 times

  Business Times Singapore Investment Roundtable June 2007 The beginning of the end? The bull market appears to have peaked and a major correction in global…

• Emerging Boom or Bubble?

  Published 21 February 2007 | viewed 4,394 times

  14 February 2007 Business Times Singapore INTRODUCTION Foreign capital continues to flow at near record levels into Asian and other emerging stock and bond markets.…

• Musings on the 'New High' in the Market and Other Thoughts

  Published 12 October 2006 | viewed 4,628 times

  Is the new high for real? The financial media, especially CNBC, aka Bubblevision, have been trying to stoke up excitement as the Dow Jones Industrial…

• Is US Dollar Headed for Doldrums?

  Published 15 June 2006 | viewed 4,547 times

  10 June 2006 Business Times Singapore English (c) 2006 Singapore Press Holdings Limited OVERVIEW MARKETS have sounded the retreat. This week the Dow Jones Industrial…

• Good Old Gold

  Published 26 December 2005 | viewed 11,028 times

  This roundtable discussion was originally published in the 17 December 2005 edition of Business Times Singapore English (c) 2005 Singapore Press Holdings Limited. OVERVIEW THE…

• Comments on the Macroeconomic Outlook

  Published 18 June 2004 | viewed 2,365 times

  In a normal economic cycle, we would be at the sweet spot of a spreading global upturn, with increased capital spending on top of revived…

• Gordon Brown: The Minister From Gosplan's Power Grab

  Published 16 June 2003 | viewed 2,518 times

  In a widely telegraphed political and economic decision the double act of Prime Minister Tony Blair and Finance Minister Gordon Brown confirmed their mantra on…

• The New Currency Paradigm:
  Sell The Greenback, Buy The Iraqi Dinar And The Zimbabwean Dollar

  Published 20 May 2003 | viewed 3,968 times

  From the spring of 1995 until last year the mantra first orchestrated by Robert Rubin and faithfully chirped by his successors from the US Treasury…

• Asian Economic Growth

  Published 08 April 2003 | viewed 2,904 times

  Economic development in the past two hundred years has been primarily a story of progressive industrialization spreading in waves first from Britain and Northern Europe…

• War And The Perversity Of The Markets

  Published 24 March 2003 | viewed 2,613 times

  War, information technology and disinformation have a long established relationship. It was Baron Rothschild who cleaned up at the Battle of Waterloo. Having exclusive use…

• Asset Bubbles, Market Crashes And The Dilemmas For Policy Makers

  Published 21 December 2002 | viewed 3,131 times

  Financial history is littered with periods wherein a population took a collective leave of its senses and indulged in delusions of ever-expanding wealth. More often…

• Is The Future One Of Deflation Or Inflation?

  Published 04 December 2002 | viewed 2,863 times

  An obscure philosophical argument about whether the present economic downturn is qualitatively different than others since WWII revolves around the issue of whether the advanced…

• China's Emerging Political and Economic Role within Asia

  Published 28 November 2002 | viewed 3,688 times

  As China experiences a generational change in leadership and its economy adapts to the realities of WTO membership, this is a most appropriate time to…

• The Imminent And Welcome Death Of The Euroland's Stability And Growth Pact

  Published 23 October 2002 | viewed 2,637 times

  As if to prove the old saw that if you gave typewriters to an infinite number of monkeys sooner or later one would come up…

• The View From The IMF-World Bank Meetings: We're All Stuffed!

  Published 06 October 2002 | viewed 2,689 times

  This year's IMF/World Bank meetings were different in organisation and scale from previous years. They were truncated to the weekend to minimise the disruption and…

• Slowly Beat The Drums Of August

  Published 19 August 2002 | viewed 2,468 times

  Tradition dictates that nothing much happens in August - at least on the surface. The ministers of state in the chancelleries of Europe were supposed…

• Has Irrational Pessimism Taken Over From Infectious Greed?

  Published 31 July 2002 | viewed 2,954 times

  The old adage that when America catches a cold the rest of the world suffers from pneumonia remains a truism in today's globalised markets, whether…

• The Third Crisis of American Capitalism

  Published 30 June 2002 | viewed 2,855 times

  Just as all political careers are supposed to end in failure, all bubbles burst and the hangovers are usually far worse than the party that…

• Dodge City East - Showdown at the Kashmir Line of Control

  Published 05 June 2002 | viewed 2,726 times

  With the world - always excluding the United States, exceptional as ever - obsessed with the most truly global sporting event, its quadrillenial festival of…

• Mrs. Watanabe and the Barbarous Relic Signal the End of the Kozuimu Bubble

  Published 17 February 2002 | viewed 2,451 times

  As George Bush arrives in Japan all the economic and political signals coming out of the country continue to be depressing. You can tell when…