Wisdom of the Crowd - New Issues

 

1. Should SG continue with massive testing of covid?
2. Is safe entry a useful tool to stop the spread of the covid virus?

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Moving towards the endemic phase

 MTF (aka WTF) relied on a high vaccination rate to enter into the endemic phase.

Other countries did also, e.g. Israel and Australia. But SG seemed to have got it worse than the other countries.

Here are some data:

Deaths during the past 7 days per million of population

Singapore - 15

Israel - 5

Australia - 4

There is something wrong with the way SG approaches it.

What is it? Here is my view. http://tklcloud.com/Feedback/feedback2.aspx?id=4951

Who can beat Tesla in the EV market?

I realized a profit of more than $500,000 in my investment in Tesla over the past 30 months.

I have often been asked the questions:

a) Will NIO, Li Auto, XPeng, BYD or Lucid be as successful as Tesla

b) Will the legacy auto manufacturers, e.g. Toyota, Ford, GM, VW give a challenge to Tesla when they move into the EV (electric vehicle) market?

I will give my views.

https://fisca.sg/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ID=1097

WOTC - Testing of asymptomatic people

 Wisdom of the Crowd: 61% of the respondents said that we should stop testing of asymptomatic people.

https://tklcloud.com/Crowd2/chart3.aspx?id=2432

Wisdom of the Crowd - New Issues

1. Pritam Singh gave negative remarks about WhatsApp University.
2. America wants the United Nations to allow Taiwan to participate more actively in its activities

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My investment in Tesla - 29 Oct 2021

 I started investing in Tesla in July 2019. I made a profit of $50,000 SGD for the first 6 months. I told my story in this e-book. It can be downloaded free.

Over the next two years, I probably realized a total profit of over $300,000 SGD on my investing in Tesla. My trading activities over the period of two years can be viewed in several posts in this website. Link.

Today, I will give an update of my adventure over the past month.

https://fisca.sg/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ID=1095

WOTC - Inflow of foreign professionals

 Wisdom of the Crowd: 90% of the respondents said that the inflow of foreign professionals under the current protocol should be restricted.

https://tklcloud.com/Crowd2/chart3.aspx?id=2431

How a young person can invest savings

 Hi Mr Tan,

If i have around 2-3k per month surplus to spare, what kind of diversify portfolio investment would you recommend me to go for and how much % should i put into each portfolio?

https://fisca.sg/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ID=1093&Name=How-a-young-person-can-invest-savings&View=A

WOTC: Recovery after the pandemic

 Wisdom of the crowd: 70% of the respondents do not expect Singapore to rebound strongly after the pandemic.

https://tklcloud.com/Crowd2/chart3.aspx?id=2430

Death rate according to vaccination status

 In the social media, there are many complaints that the Ministry of Health has stopped providing information of deaths separated between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. The posters said that MOH wanted to hide the facts.

Here are my views.

http://tklcloud.com/Feedback/feedback2.aspx?id=4942

Continue the investment linked policy?

QUESTION FROM A POLICYHOLDER

20 years ago, I bought a whole life investment linked policy for my daughter. The agent said it was best time to buy insurance when you are young as its cheaper.

However, from the 2021 benefit illustration which I recently requested, I found this statement to be false for the following reasons:

My reply here.

 https://fisca.sg/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ID=1092

WOTC - Is China acting aggressively

 Wisdom of the Crowd: 75% of the respondents said that China is not acting aggressively in international affairs.

https://tklcloud.com/Crowd2/chart3.aspx?id=2429

My analysis of semiconductor stocks

I read a news article that the shortage of semiconductors will great good growth opportunity for the industry over the next two years.

It covered several American semiconductor stocks. I added a few Asian stocks to this list, namely SMIC, Samsung, TSMC.

 https://fisca.sg/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ID=1090

Analysis of China tech stocks

Many technology stocks in China have dropped by about 50% during the past few months, after China took action to control the monopolistic practices and power of these company.

I have been asked this question - with the drop in price, is it attractive to invest in these stocks now? I give my view here. 

https://fisca.sg/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ID=1088 

Freedom and the abuse of freedom

 Many people consider "freedom" to be an important right for the people in a country.

I agree with this view, but to a certain extent only.

I explain my view. https://tklcloud.com/Feedback/feedback2.aspx?id=4937

Rooster Coop

In the book - The White Tiger - the author describes the "Rooster Coop".

The roosters are kept in the coop and wait to be slaughtered for food. They are slaughtered one at a time, when a customer wants to buy a rooster.

 The roosters watch other roosters being slaughtered and know that they turn will come.

They accept their fate. They do not fight to escape from the coop.

This is the life of the poor people in a country. The poor people accept the job of servants at low wages and miserable living conditions, but they remain honest and loyal to their masters.

While the author describe the condition of the poor in India, the same conditions apply to other countries.

The rich people own the land and collect a big portion of the meager earnings of the poor villagers. They employ thugs to intimidate and control the tenants.

https://tklcloud.com/Feedback/feedback2.aspx?id=4936

WOTC - Big spike in covid deaths

 Wisdom of the Crowd: 59% of the respondents said that the ministers made the wrong decision to move to the endemic phase.

https://tklcloud.com/Crowd2/chart3.aspx?id=2428

Restrictions on dining out

 Here are my views on the WTF restriction on the number of people dining out.

http://www.tklcloud.com/Feedback/feedback2.aspx?id=4930

WOTC - China applies to join CPTPP

 Wisdom of the Crowd: 90% of the respondents said that Singapore should support China's application to join the CPTPP.

https://tklcloud.com/Crowd2/chart3.aspx?id=2426

Wisdom of the Crowd - New Issues

1. Should Singapore continue to move towards opening up the economy
2. Will America send troops to defend Taiwan if China takes military action?

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