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Mike Tyson Aside from Covid-19 news, one of the most interesting bits of news comes from the world of boxing. The former “Baddest Man on the Planet,” Mike Tyson has shown videos of himself training for a “comeback.” Mike Tyson was the most ferocious boxer of his generation. I’m old enough to remember watching him in... 

The history and the consequences of Black Death in the 14th Century is well recorded. I want to emphasize two points. 1. The social consequences of the plague [Black Death] on society came to be profound. The high mortality rate resulted in a drastic decline in the labor force. Wages rose for both agricultural and urban workers.... 

The New Year message by late Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) in 1982 was to have a wholly Singaporean workforce by 1991. The reason he cited was that it was not desirable socially, politically and economically to depend on a large migrant workforce, citing the examples of France, UK and even West Germany, which had large migrant workforces...