You’ll be dead before you can spend it! Singaporeans enter the 20th year of...
Watching the Euro-zone unravel has so far almost been like a moral fable for Singaporeans. Be honest! Who out there isn’t feeling a sense of Schadenfreude? The original Greek or Irish problem on the...
View ArticleTharman joins the King of Spain in a Royal Elephant Shoot.
Recently the Spanish King was in the news after it was discovered he had been shooting elephants in Botswana. The outrage was not sympathy for the elephants but the discovery that he was on a luxury...
View ArticleRoyal Elephant Shoots Part 2
Yesterday I wrote about the PAP government’s willingness to bail out the Eurozone with generous contributions to the IMF’s lending facility (http://sonofadud.com/2012/04/25/659/). Yet a US$4 billion...
View ArticleRoach Motel Or Investing for the Long-Term: You Decide What Best Describes...
A “Roach Motel”, originally a term used to describe a cockroach trap, has become a metaphor used by hedge fund managers to describe an investment that is too large in relation to the size of the...
View ArticleBehind Chamber Doors. (Why wait for the Judgement when the State Media have...
As most of us are aware the government controls the media both directly, through Temasek’s ownership of MediaCorp, and indirectly, by its power to appoint the senior management and the editors of SPH...
View ArticleHow to Make A Small Fortune in Banking (A Further Note on Behind Chamber Doors)
A thought experiment imagining that the government is a bank (or more accurately a long only hedge fund). This is not far-fetched given the highly leveraged balance sheet shown in the annual Statement...
View ArticleStatement on the IMF loan judgement and appeal for donations
On 22 October 2012 Justice Tan issued a judgement in my suit which must be of grave concern not only to all citizens of Singapore but to citizens fighting for democracy wherever they happen to live. If...
View Article“I find this argument highly insulting and hugely dangerous”
"I find this argument highly insulting and hugely dangerous" How the learned judge's decision upset this Singaporean.
View ArticlePresidential Candidate Tan Kin Lian speaks out on unconstitutional IMF loan,...
Presidential Candidate voices out on IMF loan appeal and pledges $1000!
View ArticleSingapore, Lagarde Stealing from the Poor to give to the Rich
With reference to my legal action to block our government’s loan commitment to the IMF you may have heard me say that I am not necessarily opposed to giving the IMF more resources. I must now admit...
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