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Climate Tricks 77, Stop human reproduction to 'fight' CC
This is one more proof that extreme climate alarmism can make people become idiots, and they proudly announce the idiocy.Some reports two weeks ago:Ocasio-Cortez: People Maybe Shouldn’t Reproduce Due...
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BWorld 299, Capitalism and freedom in Asia
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Friday, March 01, 2019.“The over-all speed of advance will be increased by those who move fastest. Even if many fall behind at first, the cumulative effect of...
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On 'corrosive' China capital in the PH
Last February 21, 2019, Stratbase ADR Institute (ADRi) hosted a RTD with Alvin Camba at the Tower Club, Makati City. Alvin is a PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology at the John Hopkins University...
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Inequality 38, Forbes' billionaires 2019
Forbes magazine released yesterday its annual report, Forbes top billionaires, https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/#5577002a251c.The socialists, Oxfam and other organizations, leaders are salivating at...
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BWorld 300, IPR, innovation and growth
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on March 05, 2019.“The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition…is so powerful, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only...
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El Nino and water shortage in Metro Manila
On the current El Nino, four points here:(1) After a brief La Nina from October 2017 to April 2018, El Nino resumed from October 2018 to present.(2) current El Nino is mild compared to 1998 and...
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BWorld 301, Inflation, Interest Rate, BSP Governor, and Travel Tax
* This is my column in BusinessWorld, March 06, 2019.Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”— Milton...
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On murders and genocide, Muslims or Christians
Murder of one person already terrifies me. Murder of 49 in NZ is sickening. Genocide of 6,000+ is pure evil.'Pure Genocide': Over 6,000 Nigerian Christians Slaughtered, Mostly Women and ChildrenBy...
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BWorld 302, Energy favoritism by legislation
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on March 12, 2019.Going through the Economy section of BusinessWorld last week, I checked these four energy-related reports:1. “NGCP declares ‘yellow alert’ for...
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China Watch 31, Overstated and exagerrated GDP size
This is interesting. The China Communist Party local leaders over-state the size of their economy for the past 9 years. They also under-state the government debts (and degree of political...
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BWorld 303, Water surplus vs water shortage
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last March 15, 2019.In terms of water supply for the Philippines and many other tropical countries, we have a mixture of news. First the good news — we have too...
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Agri Econ 30, Tractors controlled by local politicians
There is no "market failure" in tractor use and rental. More privately-owned tractors (like privately-owned tricycles/jeeps/buses/vans for hire), more competition, the rental cost goes down, farmers...
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BWorld 304, MORE tax relief in CIT
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last March 19, 2019.Starting this week, this column will produce a series of Market-Oriented Reforms for Efficiency (MORE) articles related to recently enacted...
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US Marines training for SCS/WPS island seizures
See these stories below. Go Trump, Pompeo, Shanahan. Just enforce existing international rule of law on freedom of navigation and territorial sovereignty of countries in the...
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BWorld 305, MORE electricity supply in East Asia
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last March 22, 2019.Continuing the Market-Oriented Reforms for Efficiency (MORE) series in this column, we tackle the importance of more electricity production in...
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On the Trump-Russia hoax, the scammers are silent
Hoaxhers -- like NYT, CNN, Wapo, Dems, etc. -- of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but gullible and emotional followers :-)Sound of silence from people who for nearly 3 years were posting...
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BWorld 306, MORE stock market development
* This is my article in BusinessWorld yesterday, March 25, 2019. Continuing the Market-Oriented Reforms for Efficiency (MORE) series in this column, we look at one of the important indicators of an...
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PH's debt/GDP ratio stopped declining under Duterte
Until the last full year of Gloria Arroyo in 2009, PH's debt/GDP ratio was 54.8%. Then came the Benigno Aquino admin, the ratio kept falling with numerator (borrowings) controlled while the denominator...
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BWorld 307, MORE airline competition
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Tuesday, March 26.The Market-Oriented Reforms for Efficiency (MORE) series continues and tackles the air transportation sector. For an archipelago of more...
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Climate Tricks 78, Catastrophe... Not, since 19 years ago
In June 1989, the UN has warned humanity that there would be global disaster, "entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels by the year 2000." Or 19 years ago, wow. So...
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