PAP’s Tactics Against Sylvia Lim Follow A Familiar Pattern of Fake News and Distraction
Now that Parliament has passed the charade of fake accounting and sham spending that is the PAP’s excuse for a Budget, Singaporeans can look forward to the exciting prospect of […]
BG Chan’s Words Not Only Insulted The Intelligence of Singaporeans But Were Deeply Worrying
Yesterday I wrote about how Chan Chun Sing had patronised Singaporeans by giving them the benefit of his Cambridge Economics education by explaining that if you spent a dollar from […]
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 […]
Budget 2018: Same Old Cliches As Heng Makes Your Money Vanish in the Uniquely Singaporean Version of the Shell Game
Budget time yesterday and my first thought was that I had stepped into a time machine and been transported back to last year’s Budget. In fact the same could be […]
We Know It’s Budget Time When State Media Put Up An Unsympathetic Family to Trick You Into Thinking PAP Government Can’t Do More
It is Budget time again and part of our good old PAP-controlled state media’s job is to prepare Singaporeans not to expect too much from their government. Then, when the […]
Will He Stay or Will He Go?
I for one have always been sceptical of the assumption that Lee Hsien Loong would step down as PM when he reaches 70. This seems to have originated in a […]
One Index The PAP Would Rather Not Be Top Of Or Would It?
The PAP take credit for Singapore’s stellar performance in many global indices and engages in various strategies to boost our ranking, including comparing Singapore with large countries instead of cities, […]
State Media Attempt to Bamboozle Singaporeans Yet Again With Fake News
Singaporeans have grown used to the PAP’s media monopoly on a regular basis citing studies showing Singapore topping one or more global indices or statistics proving that we are one […]
Staying Clean Not A Simple Matter in Some Countries
I read with amusement the letter written to the State Times by one Francis Cheng arguing that Singapore MNCs should be allowed to pay bribes as otherwise foreign competitors will […]
A Shocking Window Into The Institutional Corruption That Pervades Singapore Inc
Quietly over Christmas the US Justice Department announced that it had reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Keppel Offshore and Marine. Under the agreement Keppel O & M, a unit […]
US Tax Reform Could Raise US GDP by 1.4%. But How Much Will It Lower Singapore’s GDP?
The Republican tax plan is now almost certain to become law by the end of this year. As I write it has been passed by the Senate and the House […]
Will the fixed PE have consequences for the PAP at the next election? Somehow I doubt it
According to Tan Cheng Bok the fixing of the 2017 Presidential Election will result in consequences for the PAP at the next election due to “a great outpouring of anger […]
Another Wayang From Our Fake News Government
Two days ago the State Times, our Government Fake News Mouthpiece, announced proudly that Singapore was rolling out its first electric car-sharing programme in conjunction with the Bollore Group. Khaw […]
Heng Swee Keat Studied Economics With Me at Cambridge. Yet These Days He Seems to Have Forgotten Most of What He Learnt in His Eagerness to Parrot His Master
Recently I put out a blog article questioning why PM Lee needed to raise taxes, “Hey Lee Hsien Loong, Where’s Our Money Dude”. I pointed out that given the size of […]
Hey Lee Hsien Loong, Where’s Our Money Dude?
Every year whether it is the National Day Rally or the PAP Convention, our Dear Leeder dusts down last year’s speech, changes the dates, and gives the same address again […]
