The No-Growth Economy and the Bankruptcy of the PAP Economic Model
On Thursday 14 October The States Times published a synopsis of the Ministry of Trade and Industry’s (MTI) release of the advance estimates of GDP growth in the third quarter […]
Shanmugam Either Doesn’t Know or Deliberately Misrepresents the Meaning of Rule of Law
By ordering nine individuals to apologise and publish a correction after they posted a Mothership article that had misleadingly edited Shanmugam’s Parliamentary speech during the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act debate, […]
It’s Back to the 1970s as Lee Hsien Loong Demonstrates Nothing Has Changed
The last week has brought a distinct feeling of deja vu. Firstly, we had the decision to close Yale-NUS, which was spun as economic but was clearly a political decision. […]
Will PM Lee Finally Come Clean at NDR 2021 and Admit His Government’s Policies for 40 Years Have Been a Failure?
We have been given a preview of LHL’s National Day Rally speech when Lawrence Wong gave an interview to the BBC a week ago. (The BBC should be given the […]
In Light of His Maid’s Acquittal, Liew Mun Leong Must Be Sacked from Surbana and Changi AIrport Group and Prosecuted to the Fullest Extent of the Law.
Yesterday Justice Chan Seng Onn overturned Mr Liew’s maid’s, Ms Parti Liyani’s, conviction for theft and found that there was “an improper motive” on the part of Mr Liew and […]
Letter to TODAY Online from the Reform Party in Reference to an Article Published on 24 May Entitled “Members who resigned, were expelled ‘no big deal’ for PSP: Tan Cheng Bock
Today I and Andy Zhu Laicheng, the Chair of the Reform Party. sent the following letter to the Editor of TODAY Online: 26 May 2020 The Editor TODAY Online Mediacorp […]
In A Heartwarming Story Amid Covid-19 Low Income Singaporeans Donate Billions of $ To Allow an Elderly Woman To Pursue Her Social Media Hobby
Yesterday Temasek announced that its philanthropic arm, Temasek Foundation, would be providing “300,000 meals to around 2,750 people in need who have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.” Their statement […]
Singapore Fact Checking Website Refutes Ho Ching Salary Claim Without Giving Facts.
Some Singapore watchers might be forgiven for thinking that Heng Swee Keat is Ho Ching’s house elf. Somehow yesterday this civil servant got the Finance Minister and the Deputy Prime […]
Heng’s Performance Shows He Would Not Survive If He Was Not Protected from Competition
The main reason I chose to study Economics was that it truly is the Queen of all Sciences. Economics provided the blinding insight that competition leads to the survival of […]
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