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We look back to the latest UK political tragedy this week as Prime Minister Truss was forced to resign after just 44 days in office. The humiliation was even greater when the British Daily Star tabloid launched a live stream of an unrefrigerated head of lettuce with a blunt question for the title: “Can Liz…

There is so much crazy volatility in the equity markets this week that we see 2+% moves up and down every other day while the general trend seems to still be trending down. The erratic moves are making it hard for traders to decide what to do as we head into the year-end period where…

It looks like the 2+ years of Covid is finally over. S’pore is open for business as usual and ramping up aggressively. The annual F1 night race happened last weekend with the largest crowd ever. There were about 302,000 who attended, making it the biggest turnout ever in its history. 49% were overseas visitors. Just…

Looking back at my school days, I always had a beef to pick with my history lessons years later. I question its relevance to my education and how it could have been much more enriching if it concentrated on topics closer to home. Why would I want to learn about ancient history? Mesopotamian and Egyptian…

Sometimes in life, you feel like a rabbit sitting in the middle of the highway facing an impending truck with high beam lights staring at you. You freeze in your tracks, paralyzed with fear, waiting for the truck to hit you. Alternatively, you can snap out of it and proactively try to do something to…

Life is mostly about being in the right place at the right time most of the time. Sometimes you are being dealt a wrong hand and given lemons. You then have to learn to make lemonade to make the best of the situation. Queen Elizabeth’s passing this week is a celebration of the life she…

It was a hilarious week of American shenanigans as we saw the ex-president’s lawyers trying to justify themselves with every crazy reason possible, only to be shot down one after another within hours. If you try to defend the indefensible, you start to dig a deeper hole and make yourself a bigger fool than you…

Two comments over the last week stood out for me. The first one summarizes the topic this week. It was from one of our ministers who said: “We sleepwalk into conflict”. This perfectly describes the situation now in the 3 conflict zones around the world, namely Ukraine, Taiwan and Myanmar. I will attempt to forecast…