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kjeyaretnam

I'm a Singaporean economist who became an opposition activist. I blog to provide an alternative to the porkies that the Pinkies tell. It just so happens that my alternative is the truth. That's why I've never been sued in any civil or criminal court no matter how hard hitting my criticism.
I'm quoted and interviewed and asked to speak across the world but largely censored in Singapore in an effort to silence my political opinions.
The left hate me because they think I split their vote and because I eschew their outmoded economic models. Models that don't work.
The Right and the Conservatives hate me because I'm a liberal.
I'm not sure what the middle think of me. I don't think there are more than a handful of people in the middle, here in Singapore.
I'm a Singaporean born and bred, dual heritage, my parents Singaporean established here before the State of Singapore was created. I'm not Eurasian.
I read economics at Cambridge and could be broadly described as from the Keynesian school but I believe in interventions. I was formerly a successful hedge fund manager. After economics and politics my greatest interests are history, film and Makan. I run but I run so I can eat like a Singaporean.

The AG Should Produce Statistics Rather Than Issue Threats

Last Friday the Attorney General’s Chambers (AG) issued a statement saying that claims that preferential treatment had been given to members of the group who killed a man at an […]

Why Singaporeans Should Support a Minimum Wage

This week there has been a lot of debate about the advisability of implementing a minimum wage in Singapore. Manpower Minister Josephine Teo kicked off with the jargon-filled nonsense that […]

PM Lee’s Unnecessary Libel Suit Should Not Be Used to Shut Down Questions About His Government’s Knowledge of 1MDB

This week we were treated to the spectacle of Lee Hsien Loong’s totally unnecessary, vexatious and abusive defamation suit against Leong Sze Hian finally being heard in court.  The PM […]

Lucien Wong’s Controversial Past Points to Need for Reform of the AG’s Office

In the wake of Ms Parti Liyani’s acquittal several stones are being overturned and not surprisingly all manner of unpleasant things being found underneath them. I wrote in my last […]

Recusing Himself Does Not Let the AG Off the Hook. Like With Josephine Teo, There Needs To Be an Independent Investigation of His Involvement in the Decision to Prosecute Mr Liew’s Maid

The revelations are coming thick and fast in the case of Mr Liew’s abused maid. Yesterday I wrote about the curious coincidence of Josephine Teo’s husband resigning as CEO International […]

The Curious Case of Josephine Teo’s Husband’s Resignation from Surbana Two Days Before Liew’s Maid Was Acquitted

In all the public anger and outrage that has surfaced since Justice Chan’s scathing comments about on Mr Liew, no one seems to have picked up on the curious fact […]

While $20 for 100 Hours of Work Is “Peanuts” Even for an Impoverished Foreign Domestic Worker, $100 Million Might Be Peanuts for Natural Aristocrats Like Ho Ching

During Ms Liyani’s appeal the Public Prosecutor tried to rebut the defence’s claims that she had been coerced into working outside the home and that her refusal to do so […]

In Light of His Maid’s Acquittal, Liew Mun Leong Must Be Sacked from Surbana and Changi AIrport Group and Prosecuted to the Fullest Extent of the Law.

Yesterday Justice Chan Seng Onn overturned Mr Liew’s maid’s, Ms Parti Liyani’s, conviction for theft and found that there was “an improper motive” on the part of Mr Liew and […]

PAP Suka Suka Break the Constitution When It Suits. Has Heng?

On 16 June Leon Perera, a Workers Party NCMP, asked a question in Parliament. I reproduce a screenshot of his post below: Unfortunately there seems to be some befuddlement among […]

Do NOT Allow the Kiasu PM to Use Covid as an Excuse to Remove the Last Vestiges of Democratic Accountability

Lee Hsien Loong, like his father, has always been absolutely ruthless about manipulating elections and harassing and intimidating any opposition to his rule. Despite the PAP’s claims to be a […]

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