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Free Trade 30: BIPOR and APTIR
Many national and multilateral agencies are known for being Bureaucracies Instigating Protectionism, Outings and Revelries (BIPOR). For instance, to have real free trade as in freedom to trade by the...
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Are Markets Moral?
A good friend from Malaysia, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, posted this in his fb wall today, a forum he attended in Delhi, India."Are Markets Moral?" My answer is Yes. No one is putting a gun on someone's head...
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Climate Tricks 24: Polar Vortex is Caused by Global Warming?
The terrible cold experienced in Canada and the US this week and last week has caused death and misery for some, but also fun and laughter for others. All images below I got from facebook photos of...
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Free Trade 31: FTAs, EPAs and the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem
In the new facebook group that I created and moderate, Government and Taxes, Liberty and Responsibility, a friend, Dr. Yolanda "Yolie" Robles (former Dean, UP College of Pharmacy, Director at the...
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Mining 39: Taxes, SDMP and Small Scale Mines
After I posted my previous article, Canada's $7.8 B a year tax revenues vs PH's $0.3 B last month in my fb wall, several friends commented on it. Some lively exchanges here.-------December 17-18,...
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Weekend Fun 54: World Map of Country Images
I gor these images from the web, especially from different facebook photos, funny.United States of... the World.Today, I saw this article from the Business Insider,...
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Tobacco Tax 9: Why Earmarking Legislation is Wrong
The Sin Tax Reform Act of 2012 (RA 10351) is one year old (enacted December 20, 2012) and after its first year implementation, it seems to have exceeded its revenue target. BIR said sin tax collection...
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Thailand Politics and the Monarchy, Part 2
There will be a snap elections in Thailand on February 2 or less than 3 weeks from now. The Protesters can democratically and constitutionally remove the current administration if they succeed. But...
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Sometime in July 2013, I had a debate with some Greenpeace activists, about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). I initially called them as “anti-CO2, anti-coal, anti-nat gas, anti-nuke, anti-GMO,...
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Energy Econ 11: On the Power Rate Hike
Below are my comments in one thread in Government andTaxes, Liberty and Responsibility facebook group, about the ongoing debate on electricity rate hike. -----------January 12-16, 2014(1) Bobi...
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Climate Tricks 25: Demonizing CO2 as a Toxic, Pollutant Gas
Carbon dioxide or CO2, is a gas composed of one molecules of carbon and two molecules of oxygen. It's not a harmful gas, it is not an evil gas. But with the UN, Al Gore, and various campaigners of more...
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MeTA 15: Forum 2014 on Healthcare Ethics and Transparency
The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Philippines will hold its annual forum this year with a timely theme, Transparency and Ethics in Healthcare. Things that are expected of various players and...
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Fat Free Econ 53: WESM, Myths and Realities
* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com--------With the debate on whether the power generation rate increase -- mistakenly referred to as "Meralco rate hike" -- is justified or not, the role...
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Business 360 15: How to Improve Economic Freedom in Asia
* This is my article for Business 360, a monthly magazine in Kathmandu, January 2014 issue.----------Economic freedom essentially means individual liberty, the freedom of an individual to voluntarily...
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EFN Asia 33: Bibek Debroy on Property Rights
Among the key members and personalities within the Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia is Prof. Bibek Debroy, a famous free market economist at the Center for Policy Research, India. Below are some...
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John Cowperthwaite, Statistics and Central Planning
Interesting article here shared by a friend, Andrew Work, co-founder of Lion Rock Institute (LRI), a free market think tank in Hong Kong. He is also the CEO and Publisher of New Work Media, which...
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Global Warming Hits the Philippines, Part 3
It is rather cold these days in the Philippines that many legislators are seen with their hands in their own pockets. Partly joke, partly true.Cold mornings, even at noon time, are common these days in...
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EFN Asia 33: Chatib Basri on Subsidy and Protectionism for the Poor
My first exposure to international and regional free market network was in 2004. First in the US in April-May that year when I was one of the International Fellows of Atlas, then in Hong Kong September...
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Taxes, The Beatles and Adam Smith
A friend, Dr. Amado “Bong” Mendoza of the UP Political Science Department, posted his poem in his fb wall today….Taxing to deathA septon on political economyTaxation is the purest of political gamesThe...
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Energy Econ 12: EPIRA, WESM, PSALM and DOE Bureaucracy
I like this new article by Romy Bernardo. My comments after his paper, below.---------BUSINESS WORLD, January 26, 2014 10:15:33 PMIntrospectiveBy Romeo BernardoThe way forward for the power industryTHE...
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