yup, nice prove that LKY is not psychic.
funny thing is that the source of the crisis, america is the one
with the problem, and they are not psychic enough too. even alan
greenspan is not psychic enough to see the flaw in his system.
curse you people for not being psychic
The problems with the derivatives market exist back in 1980 when
Nick Leeson brought down the Barings Bank of UK. Alan Greenspan
reduce the rate to 1% after Sep11 to stimulate the economy and Bush
push for more de-regulation that made the problem worst.
Greenspan's only regret was that he misjudge people's greed to
supersede their capacity for goodness and ethics.
TS point is that since our government is so capable and smart as
they said they are; demanding huge compensation along with their
claim.. why are they not able to avoid this mistake and dug
themselves deeper? To any financial managers, their recent purchase
of Merrill and USB etc, if not motivated politically, would qualify
for the biggest and worst blunders any money manager would
make.
With the obscene amount of money we're paying the ministers, the
least they could do is to predict the direction of the economy for
the next 6 months or more. If they are saying they know it is bad
and they know it is getting worst, so what are they doing? It has
nothing to do with being psychic...
This brings us back to the Hong Kong saga. The government's
excuse is that Singapore has not reached the same level of
panic??!! Is that a good excuse? Do they need to wait for bank runs
by both foreigner and locals before they react? This is what I call
complacency and arrogance.
How many failures must be see before we agreed to those facts
that points to the incompetence of the current government? How long
before the people decide to hold them accountable? The lost of
Singapore's wealth by Temasek and now by the Town Councils..
geeze..
If the ministers are truly as capable and paid like corporate
CEO (which I sincerely doubt many of them would qualify), then they
should be held accountable like corporate CEO.
First of, please get Ho Ching to resign and pay back the losses
made under her command.
Btw, Nick Leeson was a clerk in UK before he was super
Foreign Talent in Singapore..