The Recent Labour Market Report Shows the PAP Are Reverting to Growing the Economy the Only Way They Know How: by Creating Lots of Low Skilled Jobs for Non Residents
Today MOM released its Q2 labour market report. Of course its tone was relentlessly upbeat meant to beguile Singaporeans into believing that the PAP are doing a good job of […]
Why the PAP’s Mercantilist Philosophy Aimed at Accumulating Reserves is Impoverishing Singaporeans
Recently an article appeared in the Wall Street Journal entitled “There’s a China-Shaped Hole in the Global Economy”. This drew attention to how China’s desire to restrict domestic consumption to […]
Dear Lawrence Wong Please Don’t Plagiarise Ronald Reagan. If Singapore’s Best Days Lie Ahead It Won’t Be Because of the PAP
I read through your maiden speech and struggle to comprehend how even your media monopoly, paid for with Singaporeans’ money, can call this a major reset. For a government that […]
Should Singaporeans Draw Comfort from the AGO’s Reports?
While the Auditor-General’s Office (AGO) performs vital work in identifying irregularities and possible waste and fraud in the operations of the sprawling public sector in Singapore, what is more notable […]
Kenneth Jeyaretnam: Statement in Response to Accusations Published in Singapore State Media
I refer to the CNA article published 04 July 2024, “Kenneth Jeyaretnam given 8th POFMA order, under police probe over possible offences under contempt laws” This article portrays me, and […]
Despite Lawrence Wong and LHL’s Boasts of Having Safeguarded Our More Than $3 Trillion Reserves for Vague Future Beneficiaries, Will This Be The Fate of Many Singaporeans?
I was shocked and saddened to read a few days ago in state media mouthpiece, AsiaOne, about the case of a Grab driver, 59 years old, who had collapsed and […]
Don’t Be Fooled by Shan’s Fallacious and Disingenuous Rant Against The Economist
About a mpnth ago Shanmugam went on a rant against The Economist in response to a very mildly critical article published by their Banyan correspondent. While generally adulatory and undeservedly […]
While Singaporean Pundits May Fixate on the Unexpected Fall in NODX, the Real Story is the Alarming Long Term Drop in Consumption and Rise in Net Exports as a Percentage of GDP
Enterprise Singapore recently published data showing a year-on-year decline in Non-Oil Domestic Exports (NODX) of 20.7% in March, which was significantly worse than most economists expected. This was made worse […]
Shouldn’t MTI Receive a POFMA for Their Misleading Presentation of Growth Statistics? Growth is Slowing Down Not Speeding Up
On Friday 12 April the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) put out a press release headlined “Singapore’s GDP Grew by 2.7 Per Cent in the First Quarterof 2024″. The […]
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