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US-CN 'trade war' pummels CN the protectionist
With renewed US-CN 'trade war' stories, CN markets and investments are heavily rattled, this week's stockmarkets close, Shenzhen is -21.8% year to date (ytd), Shanghai is -17.1% ytd. As the rhetorics...
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BWorld 238, Trademark ban and health alarmism
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Wednesday, August 01, 2018.Health alarmism is the practice of frequently looking at health conditions pessimistically and then calling for more government...
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Pol. Ideology 74, Property protection under minimal government
A friend, Prof. Bong Mendoza of UP Political Science Department, posted yesterday about his favorite passion -- why more state, more government is good. He wrote,It is truly ironic to some observers...
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Climate Tricks 70, Greenpeace and the Economist love fossil fuels
Last week August 01, Reason Matters posted this photo with a note,Soon after the blimp touched down, Taft Mayor Dave Noerr stopped by to try to reason with the activists, an exchange that was captured...
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BWorld 239, Dutertenomics' debt addiction
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last August 7, 2013.“It is the highest impertinence and presumption… in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain...
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Duterte federalism is anti-economic freedom, for bigger government
I am no fan of DOF and #Dutertenomics in their tax-tax-tax de #TRAIN but I'm their fan in their anti-federalism assessment. Go, Sec. Dominguez. Friends tayo sa anti-federalism, pero less-friends tayo...
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Climate Tricks 71, "Rising ocean" when reality is rising rivers, lakes
The climate alarmism movement is all about creating unnecessary or false alarm and worries to the people. They warn of “rising ocean” when reality shows that we are more engulfed with rising creeks,...
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BWorld 240, IMO, coal dependence and renewables lobby
* This is my column in BusinessWorld on August 13, 2018. This title is rooted from three recent reports in BusinessWorld:1. DoE gives up chair of PHL Electricity Market (Aug. 1),2. PHL to become...
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Rule of law 28, Some policemen as law violators
I took this photo last Friday around 2pm, Buendia, Makati City. A policeman on motorcycle with no plate. A civilian doing this might have his vehicle confiscated by the police.And these are from my old...
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US-CN 'trade war' 2: DJIA vs Shanghai stockmarkets
About this "US-China 'trade war'", one good indicator is performance of respective countries' stockmarkets because these are good reflections of the degree of confidence or insecurity of market players...
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BWorld 241, Land transport modernization and the bureaucracy
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last August 15, 2018.UNTIL five years ago, the Philippines had the lowest registered vehicles ratio per population in the whole of North and Southeast Asia. It only...
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Energy 112, Green energy and Energiewende failures
My energy economist friend Ric has a good new article last week in Impact4all.Why Green Energy Experts May Have It All WrongBy Dr. Ricardo G Barcelona August 20,...
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Reducing flash flood
My little dam in the farm (Brgy Laguit Padilla, Bugallon, Pangasinan) is strong enough to impound water and hence, help reduce flash flood during heavy rains. No cement and steel, only stones, sand,...
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BWorld 242, PH defense spending and the SCS
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last August 20, 2018.On Aug. 13, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr. admitted that China’s radio warnings to Philippine...
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Lion Rock 24, Is everything under control?
I am reposting another good article from a friend, Nick Smith of Lion Rock Inst. in HK. This was published in March 2018.Is Everything Under Control?Nick Sallnow-SmithChairman, The Lion Rock...
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BWorld 243, NAIA closure, Passenger rights and MIAA
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last August 21, 2018.On Aug. 16, 2018, Thursday near-midnight, a Xiamen Airlines plane skidded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and caused the...
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Climate Tricks 72, Calling El Nino-La Nina as weather anomalies
I don't like academics fanning climate alarmism. My friend since 3+ decades ago at the UPSE, Dr. Oggie Arcenas, wrote a paper where his opening sentence is terribly wrong,"Among the weather anomalies...
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BWorld 244, Property rights and political lefts
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last August 24, 2018.PRIVATE property rights is among the cornerstone of a free and dynamic economy. If people have no sense of control and ownership over their...
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US economic growth from WW2 to present
Talking about GDP growth, Obama stands out as the ONLY administration that never achieved an annual growth rate of 3% or higher since WW2. Bush Jr, Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon,...
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BWorld 245, Renewables illusion and coal realism
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last August 29, 2018.THE “renewables cheaper than coal, fossil fuels” urban legend continues until today. For instance, three articles published in BusinessWorld...
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