#230 bites on global financial crisis

I found this website ‘The Baseline Scenario’ useful in understanding the global financial crisis we are experiencing.
The site provides and offers some easy to read articles, interesting videos and radio and relevant websites offering insights and education:
http://baselinescenario.com/financial-crisis-for-beginners/#video.

#229

A reminder: When a bank is nationalised, the shareholder loses everything.

#228 transparency

There was so much talk about transparency in corporate managment and in politics…today, news revealed there was NO transparency at all. If there were, it was selective transparency. As a matter of fact, there were lots of cover-up!
The latest: bonuses given to top executives at Merrill Lynch on the quiet! The bargain to pay out bonuses were kept for these [...]

#227 abusers at sports stadium

Generally Singaporeans are fortunate to enjoy sports stadium where the public could use the stadium for free.
Today, to my great disgust, there was animal pooh on the wood-chips track at the Gombak stadium. The wood-chips track is specially designed for those athletes to exercise while recovering from injuries.
Unfortunately some users not only bring their animals to accompany them [...]