Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Interesting numbers...

Political salaries, not politicians' salaries
(I guess if they say so, it must be so, even if I don't understand the semantic difference. And of course political salaries will not be changed anytime soon, hehe.)


So what's much, much, higher than MR4? The ultra-wealthy.
(And they've been discovering Singapore!)




It's not economic inequality per se; what really matters is social mobility
Mr Tharman, in his Budget speech, cites the numbers to show how well Singapore has done, social mobility-wise:



Meanwhile, in the USA, some interesting findings...


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Case of the missing word
Finally, I thought something was wrong with this headline (ST, March 10):


This correction appeared today (March 11):


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