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NUS’s Employment of Jeremy Fernando Looks Highly Questionable

Singaporeans are constantly bombarded with statistics by the PAP Government showing that their country comes top or near the top in innumerable rankings. Examples include the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the IMD Index of Digital Competitiveness (where Singapore comes second after the US) and the...

Do not take extreme measures in uncertain circumstances

Many people are not familiar with the concept of probability. I wish to quote an example to illustrate this concept. The death rate in many countries in Europe and North America from covid-19 is more than 500 per million. This is more than 0.5%. It is a high rate. In many countries in Asia, the death rate is around 50 per million....

Economists likely doesn’t even know or understand what’s really going on

Well these so called Economists sing a different tune from Josephine Teo who tried very hard to sound upbeat, most likely doesn't even know or understand what's really going on ... If you remember, at the initial stage of this COVID crisis, Heng Swee Kiat rolled out a miserable 4.5B stimulus package which is actually not an...