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Weekend Fun 63: Half-Filipino, half...
Batista d wrestler: half-Filipino, half-American.Henry Sy: half-Filipino, half-Chinese.Jaime Ayala: half-Filipino, half-Spanish.Vice Ganda: half-Filipino, half-Filipina.Fidel Ramos: half-Filipino, half...
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BWorld 202, Tourism, casinos, and Boracay
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last April 5, 2018.“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”— John Locke (1632-1704, considered the father of...
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Lion Rock 23, Our “Should” “Must” Society
I am reposting this beautiful article by a friend and Chairman of the Lion Rock Institute in Hong Kong, Nick Smith. Too many "bright" boys and girls these days and they think their "bright ideas"...
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Clamping vs towing of vehicles in Metro Manila
Towing and clamping of vehicles for various types of "illegal parking" is a big business for LGUs in Metro Manila, from MMDA to city/municipal governments. I think there is a silent competition between...
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BWorld 203, TRAIN, inflation and PPP
* This is my column in BusinessWorld on April 8, 2018.“It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.”— Jeremy Bentham (1748-1834,...
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On Duterte's closure of Boracay for 6 months
"Boracay island is state property. Thus, the state may decide what to do with it, close it down or take it over."What is wrong, or correct, with this statement?In the wall of Rotary PDG Jimmy A. Cura...
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Ytd, PH stockmarket is the worst-performer in AsPac
The AsPac stockmarkets:1. Today: everyone recovered, positive change except the PH's.2. Full month: everyone has a bad month except India, but PH's decline is the biggest, -6.1%; 2nd biggest decline is...
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BWorld 204, Mining attractiveness index and the Philippines
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last April 12, 2018.There are two similarities between the mining industry and Boracay.The first is that both have small contributions to GDP, and the second is...
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The Korea Summit, moving to world peace
I like these news reports last Friday, April 27, 2018.More talks and saliva are a lot better than more bombs and missiles.
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AsPac markets after the Korea Summit
Two days before the Boracay closure last Thursday April 26, the PSE was among the worst performers that day in the Asia Pacific (AsPac) market. Ytd decline was -11%, wow. Second worst was the...
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BWorld 205, Energy mix and wishful thinking
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last April 16, 2018.“You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.” — Alessandro Volta (1745-1827, Italian...
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China Watch 27, How many islands the PH has?
A friend sent me this meme, I posted it in my fb wall with this note:Old Q: How many islands in the PH? Old clarification: High tide or low tide?New clarification, this... (and the joke is on us)Many...
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BWorld 206, Intellectual property rights in East Asia
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last April 19, 2018.The degree of wealth and economic size of East Asian economies generally correlate with their degree of private property rights protection, both...
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Dutertenomics, GDP growth and inflation
Duterte and his Dutertenomists are deceptive. #TRAIN law alone has siphoned off more money from private pockets to government pockets esp the high oil tax, coal tax (round 1), sugar tax, etc. More tax...
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BWorld 207, Fare control and surge cap are wrong
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last April 23, 2018. “The consumers force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders…. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers...
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Malaysia elections, Mahathir back in power but my friend Wan Saiful lost
Last Wednesday, May 09, Malaysia held its 14th General Elections (GE14). My good friend Wan Saiful Wan Jan, co-founder and former CEO of Malaysia's first free market think tank IDEAS, resigned from the...
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BWorld 208, Consumer choice in electricity supply and prices
* This is my column in BusinessWorld on April 30, 2018.In several statistics comparing electricity prices in Asia, the Philippines often ranks as the third most expensive in Asia next to Japan,...
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China Watch 28, Duterte sailing to PH Rise in the east when dispute is in the...
My friend from UP Diliman days in the 80s, Jose Antonio Custodio posted this in his fb wall yesterday:Dear Armed Forces of the Philippines,As your naval units steam eastward at Benham Rise covered by...
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BWorld 209, Is the PCC a facilitator or a hindrance to business competition?
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last May 07, 2018.Even before the various competition bills in Congress ultimately became the Philippine Competition Act (PCA) of 2015 or RA 10667, I have been...
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TRAIN, DOF and AER
The DOF/Dutertenomics and what I think is its front-NGO, Action for Economic Reforms (AER). Very vocal and noisy in tax-tax-tax (oil, lpg, cars, coal, sugar, cigarettes, etc; expanded VAT), saying that...
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