Singapore’s open door to billionaires shuts out logic
BG (ret) Lee Hsien Loong Indeed, if he [Lee Hsien Loong] could persuade another 10 billionaires to move to Singapore, he would, even if that led to higher income inequality "because they will bring business, they will bring opportunities, they will open new doors, they will create new jobs". - Straits Times interview, July...
Why are so many college graduates driving taxis?
(2 July) NEW YORK – It’s a parent’s nightmare: shelling out big money for college, then seeing the graduate unable to land a job that requires high-level skills. This situation may be growing more common, unfortunately, because the demand for cognitive skills associated with higher education, after rising sharply until...
Taiwan’s struggle to relight its fire
Taiwan struggles to relight its fire (29 June) Times are tough in the ‘little dragon’ economy. Stagnant wages are feeding concerns about future growth. Can Taiwan come back? asks Ben Chu It’s an island off the coast of a continental land mass. Wages have been at a standstill for around a decade. The country had...
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