TR EMERITUS

I borrowed part of the title of this posting from an upcoming book by ST writers called, "Lee Kuan Yew, Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going".[Link] The team of writers was led/assembled by none other than Han Fook Kwang, the Straits Times editor who also wrote the book "LKY the Man and his Ideas". I guess the first book did... 

Singapore's fertility rate has fallen to a record low of 1.16[Link] per woman. This is down from last year's rate of 1.22. He said the government would continue encouraging couples to produce more children, but admitted that raising the fertility rate would take time. "For the foreseeable future, we will need to tap on immigration... 

I'm not an economist, or a smart million dollar ministers, I'm what they probably think a 'daft, no spur in my hide' citizen. May be that's why I fail to see their logic needing more cheaper, better and faster FTs and they failed to convince me. My brand of logic is through observations and my take on economy is very layman...