New ideas needed
AS we go through these challenging economic times, many still look to jaded ideas that have not worked or are failing drastically, and still try to salvage some variation of them. Various groups and political entities jostle with offering alternative ideas and policies that hardly take us away from the current paradigm of the...
Time to awaken
The recent discussion on allowing hawker centres here to operate at low rent and the possibility of profit sharing for such enterprises is the right step. This may help provide affordable food for lower income groups. But the issue of rent is obfuscated by the myth of ‘market forces’ that supposedly regulate themselves for...
Taken for a fictitious ride
We are at the usual cross roads again of do we have to tax the wealthy more or everyone else. According to media reports, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam says that injection of $1.1 billion into acquiring, operating and maintaining 550 buses as part of public transport is necessary because, as it is, the...
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