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Pol. Ideology 45: Left Intellectualism Means Abandonment of Socialism
Last July 1-2, 2013, I butted in the fb posting of a friend – fellow UP Diliman and UP Sapul alumni, also a fellow Rotarian – Raffy Aquino, a lawyer. Our exchanges below. Posting with permission from...
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Fat Free Econ 44: Deregulate Weather Forecasting
* This is my article today in interaksyon.com.------------This may sound like a “politically incorrect” statement so let me explain why.One, there is no market failure in providing the service as the...
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Drug Price Control 36: Advisory Council, James Auste and China
Another long article as a result of some exchanges we have in our discussion within the Coalition for Health Advocacy and Transparency (CHAT) googlegroups. This is four pages long, enjoy.---------After...
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Pol. Ideology 46: Misunderstanding Adam Smith
Last Monday, July 08, I posted Pol. Ideology 45: Left Intellectualism Means Abandonment of Socialism in my facebook wall. It attracted another round of long discourse. Thanks to fellow UP ETCer...
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Climate Tricks 21: Arctic Ice Will be Gone This Year?
See how alarmist and idiotic the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and "man-made" climate change (CC) religion is. In December 2007, BBC reported this, quoting Profs. Maslowski and Wadhams of the US,...
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Mining 26: Presentation at Rotary Club of Taguig Fort Bonifacio
Last night, I gave a talk at our Rotary Club of Taguig Fort Bonifacio. My clubmates were happy to see these data and insights. One member suggested to have a bigger forum on the subject with speakers...
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FDA 6: Business and Modernization Plan
The Food and Drugs Administration is technically a very powerful government agency because it can say Yes or No to the introduction of new medicines and vaccines, innovator or generic; new food...
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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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Transport Econ 10: MMDA and Car Ban
* This is my article today in thelobbyist.biz------------The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino has proposed to raise the in the use of private vehicles in Metro...
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Mining 27: Ensuring Responsible Mining from Small and Large Projects
A friend, Arcy Garcia, posted in his facebook wall my recent paper, Mining 26: Presentation at Rotary Club of Taguig Fort Bonifacio, and invited his friends from the Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) and...
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Counterfeit Drugs 7: WHO, InterPol and IFPMA on SFFC
The spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit (SFFC) medicines or simply counterfeit medicines is a big public health problem. Patients who take such fake and/or substandard drugs will not...
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EFN Asia 25: The ASEAN Economic Community in 2015
The Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia http://efnasia.org/ posted today a new report on scooping of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) future, less than two years from now.I already like the current...
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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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UHC 16: Dialogue on UHC and Medicine Access, AIM July 25-26
The Department of Health (DOH), Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC or PhilHealth), FDA and the AIM Dr. Stephen Zuellig Center for Asian Business Transformation (AIM ZCABT) will hold a policy...
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Pol. Ideology 47: SONA Rallies, Socialism and Thomas van Beersum
Another big rally by the leftist group Bayan Muna and other nat-dem allies was made last Monday, July 22, to protest the annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) speech of the President at the House...
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Population Control 18: Billions of RH Services Even Without an RH law
This poster has been circulating in some friends’ facebook wall, like new but good friend, Butch Cabanban. I made this comment on Butch’s wall,Ako naman Butch, Ethell, anti-RH but for zero religious...
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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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