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CNN PH and climate, FIT-All and coal
Last year, June 26, 2018, I received an email from Mr. Chad de Guzman, Digital Producer of CNN Philippines. He was writing about the Feed in Tariff Allowance (FIT-All) and asked me several...
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BWorld 391, COP 25 and fossil fuels
* My column in BusinessWorld, December 03, 2019.The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) 25th Conference of Parties (COP 25) is held in Madrid starting this week, Dec, 2-13. In a press...
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Welfarism 34, Larry Reed on poverty and self-reliance
These are old notes by a great friend Larry Reed, former President of the Mackinac Center in Michigan, then President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in New York. He surveyed the...
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BWorld 392, Business bureaucracies and regulations
* My column in BusinessWorld, December 5, 2019.“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”— Adam Smith,The Wealth of...
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Climate Tricks 89, Fear of principled inaction vs alarmism
President Trump is a brave man. His inaction -- on more carbon tax, more US taxpayers money to UN climacrats and endless climate junkets, more global ecological central planning -- is too politically...
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Water price control, Duterte attacks and his shameless fanatic
Water price control of the previous administration was wrong. Penalty payment control of the current administration is wrong. Arbitrary dishonor of contracts and changing of rules midway is wrong. But...
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BWorld 393, Employment and e-cig ment
* My column in BusinessWorld, December 10, 2019.The good news in the country’s labor force survey reported by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is that unemployment rate has significantly...
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Millenials and entitlement thinking
Aside from the reasons outlined in this CNBC article below, I think two other important factors why mental health for millenials seem to be deteriorating: (1) too many scare frankenstein stories...
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BWorld 394, Water politics and power price control
* My article in BusinessWorld yesterday.“Adam Smith said people who intend only to seek their own benefit are ‘led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was no part of their intention....
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Water politics and stocks of MWC, AC, MPIC, DMCI
After President Rodrigo Duterte started lashing at the two water concessionaires, Manila Water (owned by Ayala) and Maynilad Water (owned by MPIC, DMCI, a Jap firm) last December 3, the stocks of...
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BWorld 395, Culion the movie and SMB
* My column in BusinessWorld, December 17, 2019.Leprosy or Hansen’s disease, ketong in Tagalog and aro in Ilongo, was a dreaded disease. People with the disease, or even just suspected of having it,...
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Trump not really impeached?
Trump technically impeached, really?A good article and opinion here.House-Senate Impeachment Impasse Would Mean Trump Wasn't Impeached At All: Harvard Law Profby Tyler Durden Fri, 12/20/2019 -...
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BWorld 396, Price control, fare control and tax decontrol
* My column in BusinessWorld, December 19, 2019.“If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.”— Ronald Reagan, former US PresidentThere are many price...
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Brexit win and a promising US-UK partnership
I like new UK PM Boris Johnson or "Bojo". So I was happy when his Conservative Party won big time last December 13 elections.(Infographics from BBC)Now leaving the EU and its horrible bureaucracies and...
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BWorld 397, Thank you Maynilad, Manila Water
* My article in BusinessWorld yesterday, December 23, 2019.After President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at the two water companies that hold concession agreements (CA) with the government via the...
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Most read article, "Thank you water" companies
Since last Monday, my paper is #1 most read article in BusinessWorld, thank you, readers.I also received 3 hate mails for that paper and about 3 congrats mails. The haters and Duterte fanatics, many...
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BWorld 398, Culion in Christmas
* My column in BusinessWorld last December 26, 2019.Imagine these four cases of emotional hardships and social stigma in one island in the Philippines in the late 1930s.One, an unwed mother who got...
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Climate Tricks 90, Forecast in 2004 of apocalypse by 2020
February 2004, climate alarmism at the Pentagon painted catastrophe by year 2020, that's next week, wow.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserverRemember also in June 1989...
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BWorld 399, Top 10 economic stories of 2019
* My column in BusinessWorld last January 2, 2020.Here is my modest list of the major economic events this year, from international, to regional, to national news.1. Global investments expand. After...
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Jayant Bhandari on Democracy, Trump and Soleimani
Among my most vocal, very frank libertarian friends is Jayant Bhandari, an Indian investment consultant based in Canada, http://jayantbhandari.com/. He also organizes a yearly libertarian conference in...
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