While the US Economy Is Expected To Grow Twice as Fast as Expected, Singapore’s Economy Is Held Back by PAP’s Absurd Fixation on Austerity
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has just forecast that the American economy will expand by up to 6.5% this year, up sharply from the 3.2% forecast in […]
On Eve of Budget 2021, It Is Clear the Economy Is Paying the Price for the Government’s Failure To Provide Enough Stimulus
In a few hours my old Cambridge colleague, the Finance Minister and Postponed Yet Again Seat Warmer PM-In-Waiting Heng Swee Keat, will be presenting Budget 2021. State media have been […]
The PAP Government Shrugs Off the Decline in Median Income As Not Their Fault But Can’t Hide the Fact Singaporeans Get a Bad Deal
On Thursday December 3rd Ministry of Manpower (MOM) published their figures for 2020 for median gross monthly income from work of full time employed residents, i.e. citizens and PRs. Just […]
Decision To Withhold Civil Servants Year-End Bonuses Shows PAP Government Doesn’t Understand Economics
On November 27 the Public Service Division (PSD) announced that Singapore’s 85,000 civil servants will not receive any year-end bonus this year . This followed the cancellation of the mid-year bonus […]
Lee Hsien Loong Is Telling Porkie Pies If He Pretends RCEP Is a Big Deal Without the US
On November 15, Lee Hsien Loong and Chan Chun Sing signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). For those who might not be aware what this is, the RCEP links […]
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 […]
Excessive and Disguised Government Saving Has Harmed Singaporeans for Decades. It’s Long Past Time We Demanded and Got Transparency on the Reserves.
I have just seen an article by Manu Bhaskaran and Linda Lim (BL) from a couple of days ago. This article summarises many of the themes and ideas in my […]
Rather than Cyber Bully Ordinary Citizens, the Minister of Finance Needs To Be Transparent About Temasek, GIC, Our Reserves and the PM’s Wife’s Pay: An Open Letter to Heng Swee Keat
3 April 2020 Heng Swee KeatMinistry of Finance100 High Street#06-03 The TreasurySingapore 179434 Dear Swee Keat It has been many years since we were together studying Economics at Cambridge. I […]
More Covid-19 Deaths Have Not Stopped PM Lee from Going Ahead With His Plans To Use State Resources To Win a Snap Election
Today I received an email query from a state media journalist: Hello Reform Party Team, I’m Eugenia from CNA and am working on a story on the Ang Mo Kio […]
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