The Pandemic Exposes the Fallacious and Mendacious Reasoning Behind the PAP’s Foreign Worker Policy
In a statement on 16 March 2021 Ministry of Manpower (MOM) revealed that total employment dropped by 166,000 in 2020. However more than 100% of this was accounted for by […]
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. […]
Don’t Allow Ho Ching’s and Josephine Teo’s Bleats of “Hindsight” Let PM Lee Off the Hook
As I have said frequently much of the credit for Singapore’s success story should not go to LKY and his son. Singapore was always one of the richest cities in […]
Call Me By My Name. I’m A Lockdown
From Tuesday Singaporeans have been under the same lockdown measures as much of the rest of the world. Calling it a Circuit Breaker, as the PM did, does not make […]
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 […]
I Bet You Did Not Know This about Recession.
Regular readers of my scribblings will know that I have frequently drawn attention to the fact that Singapore has been on the verge of recession several times but only narrowly avoided […]
An American Economist’s Take on the Singapore Model
A few days ago I put up a post on Facebook about the decision by the Los Angeles City Council to raise the minimum wage in the city to US$15 […]
Perspiration without Inspiration. Singapore’s Role in the Asian Economic Boom.
The death of Lee Kuan Yew has shown that much of the rest of the world believes that he brought about an economic miracle in Singapore. Furthermore the world believes that […]
Ho Kwon Ping’s Self-Serving Proposals Have No Merit.
Yesterday I wrote about why the general Singaporean public paying for foreign workers’ medical care was a bad idea. If companies are allowed to get away without providing adequate medical coverage for their […]
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