A Monday morning funny – which is almost too funny to be fiction.(Got this in an email – If anyone can point the source to me, I’ll credit it).

Posted without comments. From today’s BT “GIC recognises big loss in US property project”The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) has written down most of its US$675 million investment in a giant New York apartment complex that was bought at the height of the property boom in the United States but which has since suffered ...

Isn’t China ‘our’ friend? ‘Our’ economic miracle? ‘Our’ photo opportunity to band together as comrades to show US and the West the proverbial Chink middle finger?Then why did MM Lee, in a move guaranteed to help every Chinese flame forum achieve nuclear critical mass, make the following statement during the US-Asean Business …

Portugal is so 24 November 2010. If you want to predict where the EU and Euro will end up, all you have to do is watch the biggest domino amongst the PIIGS: Spain. Here’s Gonzalo Lira with his take on … Continue reading →

In case you’ve bought into the hopium dispensed daily by the American leaders (and its paid-for-TV-brochure s), here’s a nice little blog for balance, which aims to put into pictures what can’t be described in words (I’ve always found that the … Continue reading →

The Thai Baht/SET bailout continues apace. In order to save Thailand from breaking up, the Abhisit administration has now decided to clean the streets of the nonsense-spouting rural vermin that have infested the pristine, economic-value-gener ating streets around Nana Plaza. Keep your camera phones handy for scenes of slaughter – women, children and foreigners included …

Nothing inherently political or economical about this article from the Independent, yet inextricably linked to the control systems in our world today. You can consider this either as a useful article that delivers illumination, or a Monday funny, or a highly offensive post that deserves to be reported to the Straits Times forum immediately. From ...

Citizens around the world barely trust their respective governments to keep roads free of litter, public toilets clean, petty crime from happening, streetlamps working, and gum from clogging up escalators. And I’m pretty sure that this is true of China, just as much as it would be anywhere else – from 1st world to 3rd ...

Since there's been so much fuss the #OWS movement in various cities across the US, we thought it might be timely to remind our readers about whether we ought to be filling our kids' heads with aspirational stories of how bankers helped cure cancer, or saved babies from burning buildings (in the hopes that our kids will become IBs and be our meal ticket for the rest of our …

Another news article from the category of “You can’t make this shit up”. According to government-approved sources in China, sell recommendations can now be considered an act of financial terrorism that has the potential to disrupt the fabric of society … Continue reading →