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Law Minister K Shanmugam asked: “Do you or do you not want to give that power, real power to the President?” Sorry but that is a stupid question. Why? Because once upon a time, the Elected President actually had real power. But what happened? The govt changed the law and made him have less power, after the govt was questioned... 

The Economist is running this week with ‘Six big economic ideas: a collection of briefs on the discipline’s (economics) seminal papers’. I will use some of these ideas to offer a different way to look at our current conundrums. George Akerlof, “The Market for Lemons”: Akerlof used the 2nd hand car market to illustrate... 

The minority President issue is now the top agenda of Hsien Loong. From what he said and the publicity given to the issue, the amount of effort and resources poured into this black hole, he is adamant to see it through and there is no stopping it, come what may…unless. Raising this racial issue of protecting minority representation,...