TR EMERITUS

I wrote the forerunner of this inflation thread on February 17, 2011 at 5:18 pm at https://www.tremeritus.net/2011/02/17/soaring-food-prices-may-upend-asia/. Interesting enough, and after earlier very recent Ministerial public forecasting of a lower inflation outlook for the second half of 2011, front page read of Straits Times... 

Singapore will not have political reform this voting period. As much as we want it so, it won’t happen. Reason bring - there will be tons of people still voting for the ruling party. Example: 1) Business owners (large or small) – They love the FT policy. (Surprise! Surprise!) They can hire cheap labour and pay them less.... 

Sylvia Lim In an authoritarian political system like in Singapore where a single political party wields absolute power for more than half a century, there is inevitably a sense of apprehension and suspicion on some so-called opposition politicians strutting around with impunity. One such politician who falls under the scanner...