When You Don’t Know What To Do Claim It’s All Part of a Long Term Strategy
Any wishful thinking that the US-China trade war would soon be over was dispelled by Trump’s announcement last week of a 10% tariff, effective September 1st, on the $300 billion […]
We Need to Talk About Race
I felt almost as though I was watching a rerun of the Amos Yee saga as I saw the Government’s reaction to Subhas and Preeti Nair’s video. I have provided […]
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 […]
The Myth of the Lee Family’s Public Service
Last week I published a blog post, “How Many More Years Will Go by Before We Learn How Much the Lees Have Paid Themselves While in Public Office?”https://kenjeyaretnam.com/2019/05/20/how-many-more-years-will-go-by-before-we-learn-how-much-the-lees-have-paid-themselves-while-in-public-office/. I said there […]
The New Model of Repression and Censorship
I see that yesterday Black Dot rushed to confirm my statement. They ARE indeed a spin doctor for the Government. Worryingly these are also likely to be the guys that […]
National No Collusion Day
Today it appears that the PAP is afraid that Bertha’s confession and my statement in response are likely to cause “a seismic shift in public perception” and are moving to […]
HIV Debacle is the Result of the PAP’s Desire to Keep Tabs on its Citizens
There are lots of questions to be answered in the latest example of the PAP Government’s mismanagement and incompetence to come to light. Leaving aside the question of why it […]
From Shiny Shoes to Seat Warmer: the Career Progression of a PAP Apparatchik
When I was studying economics at Cambridge in 1980 I remember one occasion when I invited a group of Singaporeans studying Economics round to dinner at my college, Queens’. Most […]
I was saying publicly as long ago as the 2011 GE that PAP’s Asset Enhancement Scheme was a scam whatever the Independent and others may claim
Yesterday the Independent Singapore (an ironic title if ever there was one since the Independent posts prominent photos of its owner, Leon Perera, the WP NCMP, on its masthead) carried […]
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 […]
