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Archive for February, 2009

Adam Khoo Makes Money

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

… by running his motivation business and investing in shares and properties. But I would compare him with another “guru” Clemen Chiang. The founder of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group, which conducts personal development courses for children (and adults too), has invested in 2 condos (sold off 1) and stays in a 5,000 sq ft [...]


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Exploit the Recession

Monday, February 16th, 2009

If you have the good fortune of remaining unscathed by the recession, perhaps you should turn aggressive and try to take advantage of it instead. First, make sure you have set aside enough money to cover 1 year’s worth of your family expenses, just in case. Then invest the rest. Take advantage of the recession. [...]


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Best MBA Schools 2009

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

A popular career move during economic downturns is to go back to school. If you’re shopping around for a good MBA school, consider BusinessWeek’s recently published rankings of U.S. and international business schools (published every other year): Best International Business Schools Queen’s University, Canada IE Business School, Spain INSEAD, France (with satellite campus in Singapore) [...]

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Why is our Resident Unemployment at 3.7%, so much higher than Overall Unemployment at 2.6%?

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Did you notice from the newspaper reports and MOM data that our latest residential unemployment rate is 3.7%, which in my opinion is significantly higher than the overall unemployment rate at 2.6%? If fact, if you study the MOM data, it has always been higher. Why is this the case? The only reason I can [...]

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