Permission To Panic, Sir
Wait a minute, this has to be deja vu. Barely a week ago, when Moody's Investors Service downgraded the outlook on Singapore's banking system from "stable" to "negative", the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) was quick to come up with an assurance that everything is honky dory. Don't worry about the interest rate hikes,...
On Princes, Generals, and Temasek
Leo Tolstory wrote in his epic masterpiece on Russian aristocracy War and Peace, while generals and princes believe they determine the course of history it is the soldier and unknown man that create the events we come to know as history. The deterministic evolution of history resigns princes and generals to actors in their...
林瑞生不认可新穷人和总理接受贫富继续恶化
新加坡有没有贫民区? 从面上看,当然没有。在行动党的政治上,当然也没有。即使有也不可以承认。那么,到底有没有?或许,从点上看,把这些点加起来,就成了一个小面,这个小面,就能构成贫民区了。 贫富差距进一步扩大,会不会把这个小面进一步加大呢!形成一个更大的大面呢?过去10多年,低收入家庭的工资并没有实际的增加,这使到低收入家庭在面临高物价房价的情形下,生活更加困难。这导致国家的财富分配形成一个凹字,贫富两极发展,是很可能出现,甚至已经出现贫民区了,只是,这些个别的贫民点,还没有形成面,以贫民区的面出现罢了。 这是一个很简单的数字问题。人口中有5%的极度穷人相对5%的极度富人,在凹字的财富分配中,应该是合理的。这5%乘上我们的人口,不论用500多万居住人口还是300多万公民来计算,它都有10多万到20多万人。 这个人口数字,肯定的大过一个单选区,甚至接近一个小的...
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