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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.

Heng Swee Keat Must Issue a Correction Notice Under POFMA to MP Ms Tin Pei Ling

8 June 2020 The Finance Minister Ministry of Finance 100 High St #06-03 The Treasury Singapore 179434 Dear Mr Heng You have been admirably quick to make use of your […]

Fake News Alert!: Why Both Kate Spade Influencer Tin Pei Ling and Her Boss Heng Swee Keat Are Talking Cock

Yesterday Tin Pei Ling, the young PAP MP who became notorious for her posts of Kate Spade handbags that surfaced during GE 2011, gave a speech in Parliament in which […]

Bombshell! Heng Confirms What I’ve Always Suspected: The Government Is Hiding Most of the Reserves from Singaporeans

In his interview with CNA on Wednesday Finance Minister and Seatwarmer-in-Waiting Heng said that Singapore’s financial position will be “a lot weaker in the coming years.” In my last blog […]

Heng Doesn’t Give Any Good Reasons Why the Government Are So Desperate to Rush This Election

Lee Kuan Yew and his son Hsien Loong have never been less than utterly ruthless in crushing any threat to their rule or opportunistically taking full advantage of any crisis. […]

State Media Organ TODAY Admits Fake News in article re JBJ and Reform Party

Our letter to the Editor of TODAY Online yesterday received a response. To remind readers my letter referred to an article published in TODAY dated 24 May 2020 entitled “Members […]

Letter to TODAY Online from the Reform Party in Reference to an Article Published on 24 May Entitled “Members who resigned, were expelled ‘no big deal’ for PSP: Tan Cheng Bock

Today I and Andy Zhu Laicheng, the Chair of the Reform Party. sent the following letter to the Editor of TODAY Online: 26 May 2020 The Editor TODAY Online Mediacorp […]

Singaporean Ingrates Who Don’t Appreciate PAP Ministers, Spouses and Relatives Working Selflessly on Their Behalf for (Almost) Nothing Will Be Sued till Their Pants Drop! You Show Them Josephine!

Singaporeans are an ungrateful lot! Unlike Foreign Talents and Western media who have been singing the praises of our Indivisible and Eternal Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Goh) for the […]

The Government Needs to Come Clean on How and Why Contracts Were Awarded to Surbana Jurong

The posts about Surbana Jurong profiting from the explosion of Covid cases among foreign workers, for which Josephine Teo (whose husband appears to be No.2 or 3 at Surbana) must […]

Josephine Teo and Her Husband Perfectly Exemplify What the PAP Mean When They Talk about Meritocracy

Josephine Teo has rightly earned Singaporeans’ ire for some of her asinine comments excusing herself for the way she failed to do anything to prevent the pandemic sweeping through the […]

Why Heng Must Self Issue Himself and His Subordinate Indranee Rajah with a POFMA

Today in a Facebook post Indranee Rajah, Second Minister for Finance (why do we need not one but two Second Ministers? just another example of the Government’s bloated bureaucracy), claimed […]

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