TR EMERITUS

As expected, employers are pleading their cases to continue using foreign migrant workers. The reasons they cite are the usual scare tactics: loss of competitiveness if we do away with cheaper migrant workers, can’t find locals who want to do these dirty and dangerous jobs, longer completion time of projects, etc. All these... 

The current geopolitical scene today is dominated by two elephants, namely the USA and China. The USA remains the world’s largest economy and the American military remains the only military force on the planet that can fight two wars in the world at any given time. The other elephant is China, which in the last four decades... 

Lee Kuan Yew and his son Hsien Loong have never been less than utterly ruthless in crushing any threat to their rule or opportunistically taking full advantage of any crisis. Even though my saintly father always seemed surprised by the depths of viciousness to which the PAP leadership would sink, no one, particularly an economist,...