Thursday, August 7, 2008

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Tharman: Singapore Economy to remain weak for several quarters into 2009

Finance Minister Tharman says Singapore economic growth may remain weak for several quarters, extending into next year, 2009.

Though the minister also says inflation is likely to ease by year end, this is hardly good news because easing inflation is likely the result of recession. Inflation rate has been revised upward earlier to 6%-7%, while economic growth has been revised downward from 5%-7% to 4%-6% and MAS has said that it'd be further revised.

It's no more just about the US subprime problem or even the global crisis, some distant problem we can ignore, but the problem is now at our own doorstep. So much for the decoupling theory ...

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