Whenever I or someone else suggests that we need higher defense spending, there is an incredulous response from critics: US military spending equals the outlays of the next eight countries combined; how can we possibly be spending too little when we spend so much more than any conceivable adversary? The answer is that, while technically accurate, this argument is so ...

Flying cars! So futuristic! A world in which they’re buzzing around the skies must be dazzling – like a Popular Mechanics feature come to life! Well, yeah. About that. It seems increasingly likely that aerospace companies and startups are rushing to embrace a world of vertical take-off robotaxis. Just don’t be surprised if it looks a lot more like “Blade ...

What’s not to like about Singapore’s office property market? Take a look at CapitaLand Commercial Trust’s 2018 results. Singapore’s biggest office landlord, owner of $7.4 billion of the city-state’s commercial buildings, finished the year with a record-high occupancy rate of 99.3 percent. To achieve this, the real-estate investment trust didn’t have to compromise on pricing, at least not too much. ...