TR EMERITUS

Many economists and analysts have predicted the coming crash of the US dollar. The primary driver is the huge deficit of $31 trillion. I want to give my perspective of how this event might occur. The US Fed starting increasing interest rate in March 2022 and has made a few rounds of increases in the subsequent months. This caused... 

As I sat down to blog about FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the first couple of lines of a Robert Louis Stevenson poem floated across my mind -- "The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall."  There's a rustic imagery of a bright moon over a burglar on a wall I once saw in a kiddy... 

I refer to The Independent Singapore’s article, “Hokkien and other Chinese dialects: Listen to Ong Ye Kung’s daughter” (Dec 18) A language is generally perceived as an effective communication tool, it also bridges the mental and emotional interactions among large groups of people. Therefore it has a string of sentimental...