Personal finance represents just one of my core interests in life. Therefore, it’s no wonder that I have sometimes deviated from this blog’s primary function, with posts ranging from my views on why the government shouldn’t be dispensing more help to elderly landed property owners, to my take on policies like MediShield Life and changes in PSLE.
Generally, these posts do not generate as much traffic and discussion as those that are directly related to the topic of money. But I still write them because I enjoy doing it.
So I was pretty surprised a couple of weeks ago when a Young NTUC staff extended an invite to me for one of their events.
“When Young NTUC held Our Singapore Conversations (OSC) Labour Movement Series in 2013, many youths have raised comparisons between Singapore and countries that have performed well economically, and/or socially. Scandinavian countries and Switzerland were cited as some ......