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Instead of increasing GST, Freehold/ expensive residential property owners ought to pay extra property tax or convert their tenure to leasehold 99 years. (Its like flying business / first class when everyone else is economy class or cannot afford plane ticket, so the tax tiers ought to be much...

SIA share price should be $3.03 rather than the $4.11 that it is now. Hi Heartyman, Share price should hover around $3 lah, that is why they priced the SIA rights at $3 and also why the MCB is priced to convert to an SIA share at $2.68 worth of MCB at inception. (ideal scenario for MCB...

Shouldn't gold price increase with decreasing long term US treasury yields, since the lower the interest rate(/yield), the cheaper it is to borrow money to invest in gold? And how do small central bank balance sheets "provides a backstop for the precious metal" in the context of "ballooning...

U mean PRC. Yup, that how PAP designed Parliament to be. But they still say not Marxist/ communist, such a paradox /oxymoron.

Topic: Let's think of practical ways to replace the GRC system! This is correct. Clarification, NMP system is the one for arts, professionals etc to be represented, but ends up mostly just wayang show. NCMP is PAP unwilling concession for opposition to be represented but against their hope...

Where does the truth lie? Hi Good Durian, Many thanks for acknowledging my contribution to your restful nights sleep, a feat not many activities can lay claim. Thanks for bring up the Temasek usd$2.75B bonds...

USD500M of SIA 3.0% bonds. I want to enquire if the acclaimed US$2.85B demand is just fake news, since dunno if have a minimum bid for the bonds (e.g. what if most of the bids were too ridiculously/ meaninglessly low, like 10-20¢ only?). Obviously SIA overestimated the demand for its bonds...

Sounds like a lousy/ deceptive communist / authoritarian promise, something that the promisor is unable to achieve. Where will the money come from, already central banks are printing a lot of fiat $$$, your proposal will require them to print even more. U need to think over the proposal and...

INFLATION is actually a tool utilised by the rich and powerful to enslave poor / ignorant people and to keep them enslaved ('employed') and busy producing the goods and services that rich people want. Agree? I.e...

Singapore ambassador to USA Mirpuri alludes that Singapore is so overcrowded, that opportunities for civil protest are fast running out (as implied). Anyway, I don't quite buy his claims that 1000s can congregate at speakers corner (at least the toilets there cannot handle so many people and...

[Silly] Both audience and collection hat, must remain 3m away from the busker. This Senior Director from National Arts Council must have a very small brain (or work from very tall ivory tower)? If audience is at least 3m away and the hat is 3m away, then how is the busker gonna ensure that his...

Speeding motorcyclist who ignored road signs blames Nparks, LTA for not teaching samba deer to behave. Okay please , ignore my observation and read the ST article and decide what the wise, objective judgement should be (e.g. should compensation be given in this case). (only objective reasonings...

PAP doesn't want minimum wage because in their opinion, slaves (Singaporeans) cannot earn ANY wages, only a megre allowance. Slaves must always remain as slaves, for PAP monopoly and oppression that is. Agree?

Refusing vaccine produces 100% immunity against COVID-19? "Under the dosing regimen where volunteers were first given half a dose of the vaccine, followed by a full dose at least one month apart, efficacy was 90 per cent. But when volunteers were given two full doses at least one month apart...

Everytime there is a thunderstorm, Weather @SG app server will hang/ breakdown. Everytime there is a thunderstorm, Meteorological Service Singapore, Weather @SG app will hang or will fail. Anyone else notices this as well. Probably they are operating on obsolete technology or worse...

Is Donald Trump trying to trigger WW3, just to remain in power? Seems like he is pulling out USA troops here and there. Purposely leave a security vacuum here and there so terrorist or low level state actors can attack and probably cause massive destruction to USA assets which are very thinned...

Did SIA/Temasek Holdings mislead creditors and investors, by utilizing fake accounting methods? (To tune of 44% in deceit). From: https://www.singaporeair.com/saar5/pdf/Investor-Relations/Financial-Results/News-Release/nr-q2fy2021.pdf Temasek is significant majority shareholder of SIA...

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Did SIA mislead investors into thinking that their BVPS is 44% higher than it should be? SIA equity @30.9.2020= $15,251.5B If divide by 2.963B ordinary shares, BVPS= $5.147. If assume MCB are converted to shares (since in the calculation of SIA total equity value, MCB were classified as...

BMW advertisement encourages antisocial and terrorist like behavior in children. Or is it just totally absurd with totally absurd and impossible situations? They tried too hard by half. g8t_jXuO-Gk https://youtu(dot)be/g8t_jXuO-Gk