If you have bought a life insurance policy (i.e. whole, life, endowment, investment linked, or variation) during the past two years, you can participate in this survey.
Read the survey results.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Survey: Democracy
Ho Cheow Seng wishes to help me to educate people about values and character. He has written this article about democracy.
Here are the
Give your views on budget 2009
How do you feel about the budget 2009?
Read the survey results.
The average rating from 95 respondents are:
a) The budget is good for business (rating 3.78)
b) The general election will be called in 2009 (rating 2.97)
c) The average rating for the other questions are lower than 2.66.
A rating of 3.0 is neutral. A rating below 3 indicates that more people disagree with the statement, compared to those who agree.
On the whole, the respondents are less confident about the benefit of the budget for the people, in saving jobs, in spurring economic recovery or helping the unemployed. There is also a negative level of confidence in the leaders.
The ratings are similar across age groups. The employed have a slightyly higher level of confidence, compared to business and the unemployed/retired.
From Financial Times
Sometimes dubbed the world’s most socialist country, Japan never went in for the CEO cult. On average, big company executives earn about three times as much as the rank-and-file – comfortably within the four-fold ideal espoused by Plato two and a half millennia ago.
That is also a far more modest gap than the 39 times differential prevailing among FTSE 350 board members and employees, as measured by research house IDS. It is not even in the same universe as the US, where the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies reckons CEOs take home 344 times more than the average worker.
Sometimes dubbed the world’s most socialist country, Japan never went in for the CEO cult. On average, big company executives earn about three times as much as the rank-and-file – comfortably within the four-fold ideal espoused by Plato two and a half millennia ago.
That is also a far more modest gap than the 39 times differential prevailing among FTSE 350 board members and employees, as measured by research house IDS. It is not even in the same universe as the US, where the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies reckons CEOs take home 344 times more than the average worker.
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