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BWorld 419, Cheap oil, gas, and power stability
* My column in BusinessWorld last Thursday, March 12, 2020.One of the consequences of the COVID-19 scare is the huge decline in global oil demand and low oil prices because oil supply remains high,...
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Drug Price Control 44, News stories in 2019 on DPC
Some news reports about drug price control (DPC) in Philippine media in 2019 that I saw. My regular readers know of course my position -- price control (medicines, chicken, rice, coffee,...) is price...
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BWorld 420, Evolving viruses and innovator drugs
* My column in BusinessWorld, March 17,2020.The bad news is that the Wuhan virus — a.k.a. severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2 which causes coronavirus disease 2019 or Covid-19...
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PH businesses become more statists or state worshippers
Today, almost all big business organizations, many professional organizations in the Philippines issued a collective statement that more government, more spending, more borrowings, more taxes are the...
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BWorld 421, More water and investments, less virus
* My article in BusinessWorld, March 19, 2020.When President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at Maynilad and Manila Water that hold concession agreements (CA) with the government via the MWSS on Dec. 3,...
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Economic hysteria getting worse
The hysteria from China virus is getting worse. This afternoon, I went to this public market in Makati, convenient because there is no or little queuing, unlike in Shopwise, Landmark, SM Hypermart,...
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BWorld 422, International tax cuts in virus time
* My column in BusinessWorld, March 24, 2020.During global health pandemics aided by hysteria, there is global economic slowdown, deep slowdown bordering on contraction (“negative growth”). Millions of...
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Climate Tricks 92, Using the virus to push climate alarmism
Dr. Spencer wrote a good article in his blog and data so far show that the global hysteria and lockdowns have no effect in global CO2...
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Drug Price Control 45, News stories in early 2020 on DPC
I surveyed some news reports in Philippine media on drug price control this year via EO 104. I was also searching for that "study" showing that PH drug prices are much higher than in other Asian...
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BWorld 423, Estimating electricity and growth slowdown Q1 2020
* My article in BusinessWorld on March 26, 2020.The Independent Electricity Market Operator Philippines (IEMOP) sent a media advisory about electricity supply-demand in weeks two and three of this...
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Global deaths from previous pandemics
As of yesterday, global deaths from the China virus or Covid-19 is 54,000+.Now some context. The estimated global deaths from previous pandemics, from this article,Here’s How COVID-19 Compares to Past...
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Government centralizing foreign and private donations
The big lesson in this China virus scare is to decentralize, not more centralization. Centralized transpo like MRT and LRT should be avoided, centralized shopping like malls being avoided. Lockdowns...
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BWorld 424, Medicine innovation and politics vs innovators
* My column in BusinessWorld, March 31, 2020.This column will briefly tackle two discoveries related to the Wuhan/China virus, a.k.a. SARS-CoV-2 which causes coronavirus disease 2019, better known as...
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WTA meetings 2017 and 2019
Minimal Government Thinkers which I represent is an observer or sort of honorary member of the World Taxpayers Association (WTA, http://worldtaxpayers.org/).December 2017 meeting in Bangkok,...
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Co-mortality of Covid + existing diseases, Philippines
Last week April 4. I posted this in my fb wall:Am still curious -- how many of PH virus deaths are due to pure infection vs already sick with something like mild pneumonia, cancer, diabetes,...
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BWorld 425, Virus, bacteria, and pneumococcal diseases
* My article in BusinessWorld, April 2, 2020.Before the China virus — a.k.a. SARS-Cov-2 which causes Covid-19 — scare, pneumococcal diseases caused by a bacteria called Streptococcus pneumonia and...
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Weekend Fun 69, Math with the witch, wand and broom
I got this from a friend, Noel Nieva. Really funny and a bit mind- or eyes-twisting, so you should zoom into each item. I posted it in my fb wall with this Spoiler -- that I will delete the correct...
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BWorld 426, Electricity pricing under hysteria conditions
* My column in BusinessWorld, April 7, 2020.The enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) which the government hoisted over the entire Luzon has resulted in large-scale business and economic losses. The...
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Earth Hour 10, Higher electricity consumption in EH 2020
Late post, from the IEMOP/WESM data on electricity consumption in the Luzon and Visayas grids, Philippines, EH 2020 on March 28 Saturday, 8:30-9:30pm -- there were even higher electricity demand or...
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BWorld 427, March lockdowns are not price infectious, why?
* My article in BusinessWorld, April 8, 2020.When I saw the huge drop in electricity demand for March 2020 compared to March 2019, -5.5%, a result of business shutdowns and enhanced community...
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