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Drug Price Control 33: Debate with a Cat
When some people’s ego is bruised, they tend to take revenge. And if that requires abandoning a previous advocacy, say from anti-statist interventionism and move to the opposite, statist and...
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Business 360 8: TPP, RCEP, SAARC and Free Trade
* This is my article for the June 2013 issue of the business magazine in Kathmandu, Nepal. The person in the cover is a friend, Robin Sitoula, President of a free market think tank in Kathmandu,...
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Drug Price Control 34: No Single National Price, And a Wailing Cat
Among the reasons often cited why some groups propose government price control of certain commodities is that the local price of the same product by the same manufacturer is higher compared to other...
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Pol. Ideology 43: On BIG Government Fetish
A friend in our UPSE Alumni yahoogroups, a senior government official, asked if my critique of BIG government has any reference to him/her. I said NO, my critique is always on the institution, never on...
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Mining 24: The Regalian Doctrine
A friend, law student and Objectivist, free market blogger Froi of the http://vincenton.com/ wrote a good legal and economic opinion on mining. In his article last June 08, 2013, Regalian Doctrine...
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FDA 5: Trade and Investment Promotions
Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary at its office in Alabang. Congratulations, FDA Director Dr. Kenneth Hartigan-Go and staff.Doc KHG has a new slogan, a...
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Current Account, Foreign Reserves and Philippine Economic Growth
* This is my article today in the online magazine, thelobbyist.biz.-----------Three weeks ago, I made an analysis of the breakdown of the Philippines’ 7.8 percent growth in 1Q 2013 and showed how the...
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Weekend Fun 43: Tales from Narra Dorm, UP Diliman
Narra Residence Hall in UP Diliman was the only dormitory for boys. There are three dormitories for girls -- Kamia, Sampaguita and Ilang-Ilang, the rest are co-eds. And of those dormitories, Narra is...
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Climate Tricks 20: Cooling Denial
Many people these days complain of the frequent strong rains and heavy flooding this month. Not only in Metro Manila but in various provinces, or in other countries. When I try to explain that this is...
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Weekend Fun 44: Cow Economics
This revised "Cow Economics" is funny, got this from JB Baylon's facebook status, thanks JB. The photos, I got them from the web.A Lesson in Global EconomicsTraditional Economics:You have two cows. You...
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Mining 24: Casino-Hontiveros Mining Socialism is Off Tangent
Today is part 2 of the oral debate at the Supreme Court between the anti-corporate mining groups led by former Party-list Congressman Teddy Casino and Congresswoman Risa Hontiveros, and the Chamber of...
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UHC 15: On DOH Plan to Recentralize Healthcare
The quest for government-initiated and centralized universal health care (UHC) can be dizzying for all sectors -- patients/public, private healthcare professionals and providers, government health...
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Energy Econ 10: Climate Alarmism and FIT for Renewables
* This is my article today in thelobbyist.biz.------------One tool used by the campaigners of “man-made” or anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and its cousin anthropogenic climate change (ACC), is to...
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Drug Price Control 35: DOH Procurement Price and Lobbying for Another Price...
Government price control is price dictatorship. It is wrong, messy and ugly.Explore new data below, 2,500+ words, nine pages long including seven tables and one graph, get your favorite drinks and...
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Weekend Fun 45: Life is Like a Bikini, It is Brief
I posted this joke in my fb wall last Friday...Life is like a bikini, it is brief.Statistics are like bikini. What they reveal is interesting but what they conceal is vital. Lots of likes and funny...
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Mining 25: Changes in Brazil Mining Taxation
There is a coincidence in mining tax legislation in the Philippines and Brazil. Two weeks ago, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff launched a mining bill that proposes to double royalties on mineral...
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Business 360 9: Free Trade and Economic Prosperity
* This is my article for July 2013 issue of Business 360, a monthly business paper published in Kathmandu, Nepal.-----------When people are given the economic freedom to choose to whom they can sell...
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MidEast Africa 10: Egypt, Arab Spring and Capitalism
I like this article by Fraser Nelson very much, so I am reposting it.---------------To watch events in Egypt is like seeing a videotape of the Arab Spring being played backwards. The ballot box has...
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Pol Ideology 44: Another Debate With an Anarchist
Another debate with an anarchist in facebook. It started in one thread where I was discussing the stem cell therapy scandal in the Philippines, and I suggested that the DOH and FDA should focus more on...
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Rule of Law 21: Fake Stem Cell Therapy and Fake Drugs
* This is my article today in thelobbyist.biz.------------The recent stem cell scandal in the Philippines is another proof that many government agencies are getting busy with so many functions and...
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