Drug Price Control 50, Wallace, Clarete and LKI
I discovered just recently some of the articles on drug price dictatorship under Executive Order (EO) 104 signed by President Duterte last February 17, 2020.In the first three articles by Peter Wallace...
View ArticleBWorld 447, Nuclear energy and PSA death statistics
* My article in BusinessWorld, August 06, 2020.Despite the incoherent rants against the country’s water, telecom, and electricity companies by President Rodrigo Duterte in his State of the Nation...
View ArticleCovid 18, Lockdowns don't work, articles from scientists and medical...
A friend, Atty Jemy Gatdula, posted a good list of materials in his fb wall. I checked the links he gave, then I added some materials I recently encountered. Photo of a Covid from WUWT.A) On why...
View ArticleWeekend Fun 73, Russia vaccine, ECQ
Hello!!! I got a Russian vaccine for COVID and for those of you scared that it wasn't tested, I tried it and am happy to report that there is not any efectoski secundarioski и меня зовут Лопес Обрадор,...
View ArticleInterview at DZBB and Agila TV
These were old interviews this year, about the drug price control/dictatorship under EO 104 (Feb. 2020). At DZBB radio-TV hosted by Joel Zobel and Mr. Salvacion last June 04.The EO 104 "papaboran nito...
View ArticleBWorld 448, Growth, mobility and vaccines
* My column in BusinessWorld, August 13, 2020.For countries and economies that have GDP data for second quarter (Q2) 2020 so far, the Philippines has had the deepest contraction of -16.5% in Asia. The...
View ArticleInterview at Turbo Time by Mike Potenciano and Raymond Tribdino
Last night I was one of two guests of "Turbo Time" in One News PH, Cignal TV, hosted by race car champion Mike Potenciano and Malaya IT Editor Raymond Tribdino.The interview...
View ArticleEnergy 136, California blackouts and wind-solar
Thanks to Benny Peiser and The Global Warming Policy Forum (http://www.thegwpf.org/) for these news clips of what's happening in California energy. I repost the titles and links of 19 reports and...
View ArticleBWorld 449, Energy reserves and security
* My article in BusinessWorld, August 20, 2020.During the media briefing by the Independent Electricity Market Operator Philippines (IEMOP) last week, Aug. 11, data on electricity supply, demand,...
View ArticleWhy I support Trump
Because...1. He opposed UN climate drama and multi billion climate racket, $100 B/year starting 2020 the rich country taxpayers and energy consumers must fork out more money to be given to...
View ArticleUPSEAA Lecture 6, Ferdie Constantino and SMC infra
This is a delayed post about the lecture by a fellow UP School of Economics (UPSE) alumni, Mr. Ferdinand "Ferdie" K. Constantino, the Chief Finance Officer and Treasurer of the largest business...
View ArticleWeekend 74, CNN as the US'"Baghdad Bob"
This report few days ago from CNN (aka in 2016 as the Clinton News Network) is funny.The next two photos from different sources and posted in the American Thinker blog.August 28, 2020CNN has turned...
View ArticleBWorld 450, Tax competition, not exemption
* My column in BusinessWorld, August 27, 2020.Governments around the world have to grapple with raising new revenues because their lockdown policies have crippled the businesses and people that pay...
View ArticleAgenda One News, Part 6
Last Friday August 28, I was a guest again of Cito Beltran in his famous program, "Agenda" in One News PH, Cignal TV. I was the third and last guest in his episode that day, the topic was "Keeping the...
View ArticleBWorld 451, Electricity subsidies, Meralco, and the wind-solar lobby
* My article in BusinessWorld, September 3, 2020.I have been writing in this column about power and energy issues for about five years now and still the sector continues to amaze me with so many...
View ArticleRBG and SCOTUS
Yesterday a very famous Justice of the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) died at 87. She has been battling cancer for the past few years, in and out of the hospital. RIP, Ms....
View ArticleBWorld 452, Declining jobs, rising debts
* My column in BusinessWorld last September 10, 2020.Among the pernicious results of the Philippine government’s strict and draconian lockdown policies for nearly six months now is the steep increase...
View ArticleOn Keynesian Economics
My friend asked me re her daughter college Econ assign:Y (or GDP) = Y = C + I + G (1) C is household consumption, I is private investment, G is govt consumption.C = a + bY (2) a is...
View ArticleBWorld 453, Coal, growth and carbon tax
* My article in BusinessWorld, September 17, 2020.Among the major economic challenges for governments worldwide in dealing with this pandemic is where to raise new revenues as their expenditures and...
View ArticleInterview at PSVR, hosted by Cathy Cruz
Last week, Sept. 23, I have a live interview via Zoom at Radyo Bandera Bacolod 103.9 FM, hosted by Jean Paul Generoso. It was also streamed live in their FB page. My co-guest then was Dr. Homer Lim, a...
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