Challenging our US$4 billion loan to IMF. Press Conference and Statement.
Update:http://app.supremecourt.gov.sg/data/registrarHearing/08_17072012_OS.pdf 13. OS657/2012 KENNETH ANDREW JEYARETNAM (L F VIOLET NETTO) ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR LEAVE TO APPLY FOR A QUASHING ORDER _________________________________________________________________________________________________ The following is a transcript of a Press statement […]
In Search of Answers: My Correspondence with The Statistics Department
Whilst I continue with my attempts to hold the MOF up to proper scrutiny, we must not forget the discrepancies in our Budget. I have decided to make the following exchange of correspondence available as a public […]
ARTICLE 14 – legal blogger writes on the constitutionality of that loan.
Everyone should read this blogger’s latest piece on the constitutionality of the IMF loan and his earlier blog to be found here: http://article14.blogspot.co.uk/ http://article14.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/singapores-pledge-of-us-4-billion-to.html I am very glad that at […]
Balding Blog, Hair-raising development
Do you love a conspiracy theory? Or do you like to say there’s no such thing as a coincidence? Monday, as you know, saw the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square […]
Royal Elephant Shoots Part 2
Yesterday I wrote about the PAP government’s willingness to bail out the Eurozone with generous contributions to the IMF’s lending facility (http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/25/659/). Yet a US$4 billion loan (which represents more […]
Tharman joins the King of Spain in a Royal Elephant Shoot.
Recently the Spanish King was in the news after it was discovered he had been shooting elephants in Botswana. The outrage was not sympathy for the elephants but the discovery […]
We must move up the Value Chain rather than give up on Manufacturing.
The release of the unemployment statistics two days ago brought home the folly of current policy. http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_761247.html While the government prided itself on creating 121 thousand jobs last year two-thirds […]
The PM on Paying For Talent !
Excessive Ministerial pay is not there to secure talent. If the government were interested in talent it would want to promote competition and encourage a market place of ideas. This […]
Immigration is the Elephant in the Room
Yesterday the ST gave us a centre-page spread by two vice-presidents of the Economics Society discussing the rise in inequality in Singapore. The fact that one of them is the […]