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 […]
Why You Are Bodoh If You Believe MTI’s 2020 GDP Growth Forecast
I don’t know what the statisticians at Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) are smoking but I really think CNB should investigate and drug-test all of them including the Minister, […]
What Foreign Pundits Really Mean When They Say Singapore Is “Small Government”
On Saturday Adrian Wooldridge, Political Editor of the Economist and author of the Bagehot column, made the following extraordinary comment about Singapore in a tweet: Singapore’s effectiveness in treating Covid-19, […]
As POFMA Bites, Josephine Teo Takes Advantage to Talk Cock
Now that she hopes domestic critics have been silenced with the PAP’s new weapon, the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation (POFMA) law, Josephine Teo, Minister for Manpower, is taking […]
Despite Bold PAP Promises of a New Economy Our Leeder Continues To Be Mired in the Past
Last week the release of the latest population figures showed our population growth rate accelerating to 1.2% from 0.5% the year before (taking total population from 5.63 million to 5.70 […]
Another Blow to PAP’s Attempts to Game the System as Trump Lets Loose a Broadside Against the WTO
Yesterday Trump tweeted: While the main aim of his broadside is China the list of other countries which are classified as developing includes Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and some […]
PAP is Relaxed about Singaporean Extinction as Fertility Rate Hits All Time Low
Today the Government announced that the number of babies born last year was the second lowest on record while the fertility rate dropped from 1.16 children in 2017 to 1.14, […]
No Get Out of Jail Free Cards for LHL This Time Round
Coming right after the awful GDP figures for the second quarter (see Hey Lee Hsien Loong Dude, What’s the Plan?), the trade figures announced by Enterprise Singapore on 17 July […]
Hey Lee Hsien Loong Dude, What’s Your Plan?
Today the Government announced some shockingly awful growth numbers for the second quarter of 2019. They showed the economy shrinking at a 3.4% quarterly seasonally-adjusted annualized rate from the first […]
If PAP Were Planning An Early Election Before Things Got Worse They Have Missed the Boat
Today’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) release of GDP for the first quarter 2019 actually shows an acceleration in annualized quarter-on-quarter growth to 3.8% despite the drop in year-on-year […]
Retired Superman Goh Doesn’t Tell The Full Story When It Comes to Trade
After being told to shut up by Lee Hsien Loong and reminded that he is just an old age pensioner with no power (for criticising LHL’s slowness to fix a […]
Dear White (Racist UK Leave) People. Everything you think you know about Singapore is wrong.
On Sunday morning in the UK on a weekly BBC TV show about politics a British Conservative politician came out with an astounding figure for Singapore’s trade. He was intending […]
Shock! BG Chan Chun Sing Reveals He Passed Primary School Maths
Let no one be in doubt as to the intellectual qualities of PAP’s 4th Generation Leadership! This was confirmed to me today when I read BG Chan Chun Sing’s (who […]
What Economics Can Teach Us About The Irresponsible Fiscal Policies Pursued by Germany and Singapore
It is always remarkable how much praise Singapore gets from liberal or left-leaning economists who should know better. A few years ago the Nobel laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, held Singapore up […]
Singapore Does Badly in World Bank Report on Wealth of Nations
Just as you would not be able to judge the financial soundness of a company by looking at its income statement but would need to see its balance sheet (and […]
