{"_id": "2026-02-12_P15_S17_AN_INDUSTRIAL_POLICY_IN_FINANCE", "_source": "SG/PairSearch", "_type": "parliamentary_proceedings", "_fetched_at": "2026-03-26T12:30:26.919504+00:00", "title": "AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN FINANCE", "summary": "Kiat (Aljunied) : That is quite an act to follow but I will try. Speaker, an industrial policy in finance may seem a contradiction in terms, but it is not. The most consequential 20th century financial industrial policy was built by the British... (the Fed) gold repo window, accepting COMEX gold warrants as collateral. Strong financing terms could have made New York the permanent home for monetary gold, since much of it was already in COMEX...", "text": "AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN FINANCE\nKiat (Aljunied) : That is quite an act to follow but I will try. Speaker, an industrial policy in finance may seem a contradiction in terms, but it is not. The most consequential 20th century financial industrial policy was built by the British... (the Fed) gold repo window, accepting COMEX gold warrants as collateral. Strong financing terms could have made New York the permanent home for monetary gold, since much of it was already in COMEX...", "date": "2026-02-12", "parliament_number": 15, "session_number": 1, "sitting_number": 17, "topic": "MATTER RAISED ON ADJOURNMENT MOTION", "search_query": "finance", "doc_type": "hansard_debate", "language": "en", "jurisdiction": "SG", "country": "Singapore", "text_length": 479, "top_keywords": ["industrial", "policy", "gold", "finance", "terms", "comex", "kiat", "aljunied", "quite", "follow", "will", "speaker", "seem", "contradiction", "most"], "source_url": "https://search.pair.gov.sg/search?query=finance&source=hansard", "search_text": "AN INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN FINANCE Kiat (Aljunied) : That is quite an act to follow but I will try. Speaker, an industrial policy in finance may seem a contradiction in terms, but it is not. The most consequential 20th century financial industrial policy was built by the British... (the Fed) gold repo window, accepting COMEX gold warrants as collateral. Strong financing terms could have made New York the permanent home for monetary gold, since much of it was already in COMEX... MATTER RAISED ON ADJOURNMENT MOTION"}