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 […]
Budget 2016: Stuck in a Car in the Fog. Who to Ask for Directions?
Since 2012 I have pointed out, repeatedly, that the Singapore Budget presentation gives a deeply misleading picture of the Government’s finances. I have written innumerable times on how the Budget does […]
Will Lagarde Join Tharman in the Exclusive Club of Finance Ministers with Criminal Records?
In 2012 I discovered that the Finance Minister had pledged a US$ 4 billion loan commitment backed by our reserves to support a new lending facility for the IMF. This […]
The PAP Government Risks a Deepening Slump Unless They Heed the Reform Party’s Advice and Implement Stimulus Measures We Advocated in 2014
New press release by the Reform Party: The advance estimate for GDP for the second quarter of 2015 came out yesterday. The numbers were much worse than analysts had expected […]
Why Do the Greeks Resoundingly Reject Austerity Yet Singaporeans Embrace It?
On Sunday Greece’s voters overwhelmingly rejected the latest terms offered to them by their Eurozone creditors for rescheduling their huge debt mountain. With Greece’s debt to GDP ratio at 170% […]
Greece’s IMF Default Shows Clearly That the Finance Minister Misled Parliament and the People When He Claimed IMF Lending Carried No Risks
On 30 June 2015 Greece missed a payment of Euros 1.5 billion due to the International Monetary Fund. This was under a Euro 28 billion extended Stand-by Arrangement agreed between […]
Phey’s Arrest Raises More Questions Than It Answers
Three days ago, I was surprised to read a report in the State media saying that “After more than three decades on the run, former NTUC president and Member of […]
Whose “Egregious Conduct” Should Be Punished?
I was intrigued by the following report by Kelly Ng that appeared in State Media’s Today Online a few days back. SINGAPORE — A day after a High Court raised the […]
Lies, Damned Lies and Singapore’s Statistics
Recently Singapore Policy Journal published an article by Michelle Khoo entitled “Open Data for an Open Society.” In it she called for the release of data to citizens and an […]
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