What is the Real Surplus?
It appears that our Budget Cash Surplus has fallen off a cliff. The Budget Cash Surplus for FY2012, which was shown as $36.1 billion a year ago, is now stated […]
When immigration stops being the elephant in the room and becomes the great white shark in your parliament.
On April 23 the Straits Times (ST) hosted a roundtable to sit around and discuss a survey of people’s perceptions of key policies, three years after the 2011 General Election. The panelists […]
A Fresh Round of Wayang about Competition?
Today the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) announced that they were looking to increase competition in the mobile sector by expanding the role of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO). […]
An Familiar Tale of An Ordinary Singaporean and His Problems with An Unsympathetic HDB Bureaucracy
Recently someone posted to my timeline on Facebook an account of another person who claimed to have received unsympathetic treatment from HDB. I have inserted a screenshot of the Facebook […]
The PM Burdens Every Generation of Singaporeans with His Outmoded Economic Ideas
In a Facebook post on Wednesday night, the PM made another statement of breathtaking economic illiteracy. He said, “Singapore must never fall into the same hole as some countries which […]
Madame L from Pioneer Generation Package to Cardboard Collecting Pittance
IMG_0193 With Budget 2014 fresh in our minds I thought that now would be a good time to update my readers on the case of Madam L. You can read […]
Budget 2014: A Very Generous Amount of Wool Pulled over Your Eyes.
Minister Khaw Boon Wan has called Budget 2014 “very generous …by any measure” so naturally, I want to see how it holds up by my measure but because the budget […]
An Open Letter to the Minister of Finance
20 February 2014 An Open Letter to the Minister for Finance Mr. Tharman Shanmuguratnam Ministry of Finance 100 High Street #10-01 The Treasury Singapore 179434 Dear Minister, You recently called […]
The Judgement in the IMF Loan Appeal Confirms Government Is above the Law
The judgement in my appeal against the IMF Loan Commitment confirmed what has long been apparent: that the government is to all intents and purposes above the law. Furthermore, the […]
The Ricebowl Singapore (TRS) 