SEPT 18 Phantom of the Opera? Cats? My Fair Lady? Alongside these global hits, there’s a new contender for my own favourite musical and it is a slightly unusual choice. I.
Today must borrow nothing of tomorrow. German proverb (Nuttall’s) An earlier column looked at some aspects of the American economic predicament and the role of economists who managed (mismanaged) US national finances up to September 2008 and another set of economists who supported President Barack Obama administration’s policies, which would cause the national debt to exceed US$13 trillion (RM44 trillion) before end-2009.Following the economic chaos, policy confusion and difficulty in digging out of the morass, the whole economics discipline had been tarred and feathered. Can political leaders and the general public depend on economists to manage the economy?To my mind, two main problems beset the economics profession. First, economists are overly ideology-biased. At one extreme, there are the rightwing-Chicago school free-market worshippers who want zero-economic regulation since market forces through the price mechanism will solve everything. Then there are the leftist-liberal,
For half a year, Singapore's former foreign minister George Yeo met and mused over a wide range of topics with writer Woon Tai Ho and research assistant Keith Yap, in weekly interview sessions which lasted two to three hours each time. The result of the interviews is a series of three books. In the first book, George Yeo: Musings, the.
Dr Bernadette Madrid, a children’s rights crusader from the Philippines, was named one of the four laureates of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Awards, considered to be Asia’s Nobel Prize.