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Re: Holding Lee Kuan Yew accountable – Part 1 I think there's some facts to establish here: 1. The capitalistic system will be around for a long while- but probably not in its current form because of obvious reasons that all of us have read here and in other places as well. To say its...

Problem is that Bill Gates was using his own money. Warren Buffett uses his own money and they are all savvy investors, buying out when they know the market has bottomed out. GIC and Temasek were buying bad companies in 2007 and 2008(and doing it again this year), which hasn't bottomed out and...

Its like taking bitter cough medicine, and not finding it appealing. But Secy Geithner's solution was less bitter than the ones suggested by the more liberal members of Obama's White House staff. I guess Wall Street will have to find ways to survive through this and to adapt themselves to the...

A review of the HDB pricing system is more effective than a stripped down HDB estate. The latter is just window dressing; the former addresses the problem of inflated HDB prices, and the cost of living.

I would like to echo your call, bro..

Property firms..again? When all other property markets are facing downward pressure? LKY is having an expensive joke on our expense! :eek::mad:

-0.25% is much better than -5 to -7% in the US and UK, let alone Singapore, which could be as bad as -10%.

Its not her money after all. Its still our money.

Does anyone still likes the status quo of Temasek remaining an investment company, or Temasek going back to its original role being the parent company of companies that are managing natural monopolies that only the government can manage due to scale of economies? If you ask me, the latter is...

This isn't about Dr. Chee. Let's not distort this at all. Its about LHL's leadership- or lack of it. And in economics, time is money- because its opportunity costs. PM Rudd of Australia clearly understood this part of economics because he acted fast enough. LHL didn't, and the time wasted...

They won't make a substantial loss as long as they hold on to a monopoly of shopping centres and other assets in the local market. But of course, they will lose way much more overseas because of a more fluid property market- and for the fact that they don't own much overseas too due to market...

:) Point taken and much appreciated, brother.

Its not a wonder why more Singaporeans are registering their marriage overseas and producing more of their own overseas. The sad outcome is that when a child is born overseas, that child automatically becomes a citizen of that country and not of the parents'. So if two Singaporeans settle...

PM LHL had the choice to let it slide and "whatever will be, will be" or he could have shown more decisiveness by taking control of the situation from September. Instead because his father is in charge, and he hasn't challenged his father to slowly step aside over the years, he let his father...

If living costs and stress levels are so high, jobs unstable, and wages are so low, why would any one marry early and have babies? Messing about in your teens doesn't mean you would produce or provide babies, in actual fact. It only means that there has been a decline in moral standards of the...

Well I apologise if I did give the wrong impression. That has never been my intention. I hope that clears it up a bit.

All of that isn't news to me, brother.

Like I said, a big majority of government departments have a Noah's Ark look on it- because there are always 2-3 people doing the same job that 1 person can do on his own. Especially as I suspect, much more on the top than at the bottom rungs of the civil service. For a tiny, 600 sq km...

For a while, they throwing whipped cream at each other seems very fun to observers. After a while though, feelings will change.

There's no doubt she has sinned. But what God thinks of her is between Him and her, and not about us. I just hope she understands why she has got herself into such a muck when it's avoidable in the first place.