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Sounds to me like a privately owned company accountable to its shareholders like you see elsewhere in the world. The shareholders happen to be government here. It's not what Cannon wants it to be: a pdvsa or gazprom which are wards of the state or personal piggy banks for foolish dictators. One ...

An Investment Mandate from the Government to GIC sets out the terms of appointment, investment objectives, investment horizon, risk parameters and investment guidelines for managing the portfolio. The Government, which is represented by the Ministry of Finance in its dealings with GIC, neither direc...

So they can run it into the ground and there is nothing the government can do to intervene? That your final answer? I will have to take this up later....

All I'm asking is for your calculations man. You're a semi-intelligent person so I figured you could show me the arithmetic. Wrong. The Singapore government does not manage Temasek. It simply owns it. I will concede that it is socialized, nationalized, or whatever, but the company manages its own...

Carter inherited that stagflation from Nixon taking us off Bretton Woods - so there ya go. Reagan fixed Nixon's mess. Whatever, son. The FEDERAL RESERVE is the real culprit and both parties play ball. I notice that regulation of corporations - which deal with chemicals and radio-active materials, ...

1. What number do you propose? I have done the work and presented it on this board. I have no time this second to either hunt for that or reproduce it - but what it your counter-proposition? I'm not a quibbler. Throw a number at the wall, for argument's sake. 2. Link? Our own government manages co...

1. I understand you're talking about Temasek, but how did you come up with that number??? 2. You realize the government of Singapore doesn't manage its day to day operations, unlike our own government's involvement in companies, right??? It's much like Statoil in that government gets its piece after...

Gosh - ya think? You mean like when you bathroom funny boys call it socialism when obie puts a nickel into GM, and Capitalism when Singapore owns 30% of the means of production? At the end of the say, son - after you jokes have been made to squirm for your persistent misuse of the word socialism ...

Of course. Nothing would make her happier than to see them forced into a disadvantage in the labor market based on their religious beliefs. It's what religious bigots do....

Would you have preferred they end all coverage for their employees until the mandate kicked in? I have my doubts the mandate will ever kick in....