In Singapore We Supposedly Have $3 Trillion Reserves But A Government That Prefers You Die Than Get Sick
Yesterday I posted about the tragic case of the severely disabled senior citizen living in a one room rental flat whose full time carer son died suddenly in his sleep […]
A Few Questions for the Health Minister
Dear Minister Ong Firstly my commiserations on missing out on becoming the interim seat-warmer in waiting (at least until your boss LHL, whom you served loyally as PPS from 2002 […]
Move Over Putin’s Russia! Lee Hsien Loong’s Singapore Should Be the King of the Economist’s Crony Capitalism Index
A few days ago the Economist updated its Crony Capitalism Index, for the first time since the newspaper brought it out in 2016. The intention of the index was to […]
Indranee Rajah Misleads Parliament by Falsely Claiming Singaporeans Will Be Protected from the GST Hike for 5 Years. Should She Be Referred to the Committee of Privileges?
In his New Year Message PM Lee Hsien Loong said that “the Government will have to start moving on the planned hike in Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Budget […]
As More Singaporeans Go Hungry, PM’s Wife Offers Free Mouthwash
In my last blog I satirized the fact that, instead of regular cash dividends from Singapore’s massive and secret pile of financial assets (which I estimated here could theoretically be […]
SoftBank Just Announced It Lost US$54 billion on its Chinese Investments. How Much Has Temasek Under Ho Ching Lost?
On Monday SoftBank, the Japanese technology investor, announced that its net asset value had fallen by the equivalent of US$54 billion in value in just three months, or more than […]
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 […]
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. […]
Why Is Temasek So Massively Overexposed to Chinese Regulatory and Market Risk?
The last few days have seen a savage sell-off in Chinese tech stocks that has wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off their market capitalisation. The Hang Seng Technology Index […]
The Ricebowl Singapore (TRS) 