Singapore Budget 2009 - Singapore fiscal stimulus

Singapore Budget 2009
Detailed documents on Singapore Budget 2009:
website

The "Budget Highlights" is a summary. Refer to website above for details.

Its key initiatives:
Jobs for Singaporeans
Stimulating Bank Lending
Enhancing Business Cashflow and Competitiveness
Supporting Families
Building a Home for the Future

There is a "If I were the Finance Minister" game in Singapore Budget website.
link to the Game
Cool ! This is a creative way to show the tradeoff on fiscal policies and what to consider as a Finance Minister.

As what Milton Friedman said, "There is no such thing as free lunch."

Malaysia's first and second Economic Stimulus Packages

From Malaysia’s Treasury, details of the Economic Stimulus Package:

Malaysia’s 1st Economic Stimulus Package
PDF file

Malaysia’s 2nd Economic Stimulus Package
PDF file
its appendices
PDF file

SmartPengguna - a website to compare product prices in Supermarket Stores in KL, Selangor

Heard from Malaysia news today, there is this website called SmartPengguna.
website

I found this website useful.

This website is useful to compare prices of products sold in Supermarket Stores (Carrefour, Giant, Jusco, Mydin, TESCO) in Wilayah Persekutuan KL (Federal Territory) and Selangor. Carrefour, Giant, Jusco, Mydin, TESCO are the main Supermarket Stores in Malaysia.

We can select the Supermarket Stores near to our home and select the products to be compared (currently there are 8 categories available). Note the date/time the information is updated.
We can also get Ministry news and user generated articles from the "News, Articles, Feedback, Q&A" portion.

This type of website is useful to reduce information cost/information asymmetry. Consumer can compare the prices first before taking a trip to the Supermarket Stores. But the pre-requisite is the information has to be accurate and updated frequently. The cost of getting information to this website should not be too high, otherwise this website will not be sustainable.

If you like the concept of SmartPengguna as a way to save and survive in recession, check out my other posts on recession survival and fraud prevention too.

a website with lots of useful management book reviews

For peoples who like to browse through new management books to get new insights,
would like to recommend to you this website of "800 CEO read".
website

The website has a good collection of management book reviews, authors’ interview (video clips), relevant websites/links to the management book etc..

Daily blog, excerpt blog and audio blog are available too.

I have added this blog by 800CEOread into my "business... blogroll".
I am compiling "economist’s blogs", "quants’ blogs", "business.... blogs", "tech blogs" etc. Into my blogrolls.

This is a good way to know whether there are new posts on these experts’ (of their fields) blogs, instead of checking on the blogs one-by-one; much like "kanban" for blogs :-)

Feel free to check it out..
Better still if you can recommend more insightful blogs to me. :-)