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Tax Cut 19: Letter to Sen. Sonny Angara Re. SB 2149
This is my letter to Sen. Sonny Angara today, sent to his sensonnyangara@yahoo.com. His other email ad, edgardo.sonny@gmail.com as indicated in the Senate website, is bouncing.Photo is from his...
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Free Market Environmentalism
I have always believed in this type of environmentalism -- individuals, private enterprises, civil society initiative in environmental conservation with returns to their investments and effort.I...
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Hong Kong's Corporate and Forest Jungle
Among the things that fascinate me about Hong Kong capitalism is that they have both corporate jungle and forest jungle, and both jungles deliver money and utility or satisfaction for its people and...
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Fiscal Irresponsibility 27: PH's P2.6 Trillion 2015 Budget
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has announced that the projected budget of the Philippine government next year will be around P2.6 trillion ($59.63 billion at P43.60/US$) or more than...
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Pol. Ideology 56: Democracy and the Devils
A friend, Ms. M, posted this in her facebook wall. The images I just added, all taken from the web.Demokrasya... government by the people, for the people. Ang nakararami ang mapagpasya.de·moc·ra·cy...
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Energy Econ 22: FEF on FIT for Solar Power Plants
A good statement and warning from the FEF on guaranteed rate for solar energy producers. The average generation charge by various power generation companies (from coal, natural gas, geothermal, hydro,...
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This Blog has a Mirror Site in UK
I just found out today that my blog has a mirror blog registered in UK. The original blog site is http://funwithgovernment.blogspot.com/And the mirror site is...
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Inequality 18: Piketty, Fabella, Equity-Efficiency Nexus and EPIRA
A good artice from my former teacher at UP School of Economics. The italics-red highights are mine, meaning I like them. The italics-blue highlights after the article are observations that I am...
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Weekend Fun 55: Sic O'Clock News, Again
It's "Father's Day" today, our day, cool. And two friends, Jimmy Fabregas and Ces Quesada, the wacky anchor news guys of the old Sic O'Clock News, have a photo of the gang in their facebook walls, so I...
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Charles Darwin, Science and Society
Four and a half years ago, I attended this forum in UP Diliman. I was invited by a good friend, mathematician Fidel Nemenzo, who was then the Director I think, of the Science, Technology and Society...
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EFN Asia 39: Rainer Adam's Farewell Letter
I received this warm, friendly and well-written farewell letter today from Rainer Adam. I have met him first time -- along with many Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) officials, Asian free...
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Pork Barrel 11: Impending Arrest of Sens. Enrile, Estrada and Revilla
I watched the local evening news today, on the impending arrest of three Senators accused of plunder (more than P50 million stolen public money). My immediate reaction --Â Tense si Jinggoy, relaks si...
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Agri Econ 13: What and Where to Plant, Nature vs. Government Planning
Rice trade liberalization, not rice protectionism and "anti-smuggling" campaigns, is a better alternative for the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries. What to plant where, nature...
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Manila Flooding Torture
This afternoon, around 3:15pm, there was heavy rain for an hour in Makati, then light rains for the next 20 minutes or so. Many parts of Metro Manila experienced such downpour, also some surrounding...
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Helpful Government Personnel
Helpful government personnel. I think there are many of them in the Philippines, thanks to them. I met this man about three weeks ago. He has already retired from government, receiving his monthly...
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Telecom Modernization and the Developing World
Related to the never-say-die hypothesis that with more globalization and global capitalism, "the poor are getting poorer". This table says that hypothesis is, once again, wrong. Even the poor in poor...
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Rule of Law 23: RoL Index 2014 by the World Justice Project
The World Justice Project (WJP) released its Rule of Law Index 2014. Nine factors were considered in constructing the RoL index:1. Constraints on government powers2. Absence of corruption3. Open...
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Agri Econ 14: NO to Further Extension of Agrarian Reform
Three weeks ago, there was a report that after President Noynoy Aquino met with several farmer leaders, he was persuaded to have another extension of agrarian reform (AR) in the Philippines, from...
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9th ICCC, Las Vegas
The 9th International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) will be held next week in Las Vegas, USA. It is an annual, sometimes twice a year (2009, NYC and Wash DC; 2010, Chicago and Sydney) conference...
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Weekend Fun 56: Some Photos at Sic O'clock News
With endless corruption and other political scandals on-going in the Philippines today, the public would have great fun if the political satire program on tv more than two decades ago, Sic O'Clock...
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