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Tony Tan The head of Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) told the paper that Americans were being too hard on themselves and have failed to recognize the resilience of the U.S. economy. Tan said negative sentiment is a "problem when I talk to Americans." "They do not see the potential in their own economy, which is... 

Wow, wow, and WOW! Senior Civil Servants in Singapore will be paid 8 months bonus for last year's stellar economic growth of 14 plus percent! And these include government ministers, who already receive million dollar annual pay packages. Do the math. As many have observed, even Barack Obama doesn't get paid this much to... 

The regime changes in Egypt and Tunisia have been hailed as victories for democracy, as proof of the liberalizing power of social networking media, as testimony to the power of nonviolent political action. All of that they may indeed be; but the events in Egypt and Tunisia also illustrate a major defect in our economic thinking,...