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BWorld 454, Flatten the fear and hysteria, not the economy
* My column in BusinessWorld, September 24, 2020.As more comparative economic data come in, the more they confirm that the Philippines’ hard, strict, and draconian lockdown policies did more harm than...
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ATR's International Coalition Meetings
The Americans for Tax Reforms (ATR, Washington DC) holds a monthly International Coalition Meeting (ICM) for decades now. ATR was formed in 1985 and headed by the ever-energetic Grover Norquist. The...
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BWorld 455, No climate emergency
* My article in BusinessWorld, October 01, 2020.Among the big headlines this week is the report that President Rodrigo Duterte is considering the environmentalists’ lobby to declare a “climate...
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UPSEAA Lecture 7, Dr. Butch Arroyo
Two weeks ago, my intelligent and kind friend, batchmate from UPSE in 1984, Dr. Cristino "Butch" Arroyo gave a lecture at the UPSEAA. Butch is among the big minds of batch 1984, he graduated Magna Cum...
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BWorld 456, Flattening the rule of law
* My column in BusinessWorld, October 8, 2020.I just checked the World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index (RoLI) 2020 Report. I like this annual report because of the subject it covers. I...
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Pol. Ideology 78, Milton Friedman and China
A good article here, I repost portions of it in italics below. Then my short commentary. This photo of Friedman I got from the web.---------------The Visionary Milton Friedman and ChinaOctober 25, 2020...
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BWorld 457, No to free electricity from Meralco, genco
* My article in BusinessWorld, October 15, 2020.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released the October 2020 update of its World Economic Outlook (WEO) with more macro data like GDP (gross...
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Covid 19, HCQ, RDV and other politicized treatments
There is continued demonization of a proven effective prophylaxis Hydroxycholoquiene (HCQ), been around for about 65 years in the world to prevent malaria and other infectious diseases, as Covid...
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BWorld 458, Property rights and lockdown lefts
* My column in BusinessWorld, October 22, 2020.An important indicator of an economy’s development and maturity is the degree of its protection of private property rights, both physical and...
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BWorld 459, Trump energy policies and the US elections
* My article in BusinessWorld, October 29, 2020.Next week will be the US Presidential elections and people ask if President Donald Trump has encouraged more economic activities and dynamism than his...
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IPR and Innovation 48, More medicine access via lower taxes and bureaucracies
Last Wednesday Nov. 4, a global coalition of independent think tanks and institutes released a position paper calling on governments to take steps to accelerate access to Covid-19 medicines. Six think...
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BWorld 460, Trade, stock markets and indefinite lockdown
* My column in BusinessWorld, Nov. 5, 2020.The Philippines is now into eight months of indefinite, no timetable lockdown since mid-March. The adverse impact on the economy and people’s livelihood is...
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Interview at DZRH about wind-solar as baseload plants
Last Nov. 20, I was on brief, live radio interview, DZRH hosted by Cong. Angelo Palmones. Topic was "Solar, wind as baseload power?" I said No, far out, only 2.3% of total PH power generation as of...
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BWorld 461, GDP contraction, CDC PH, and medicine taxes
* My article in BusinessWorld, November 12, 2020.The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released a bad report, saying that the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) contraction continued in the...
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Walter Williams and limited government
Yesterday a great American economic mind has passed away. Dr. Walter Williams is among the big minds of George Mason University. I read about his passing when I saw the fb post of Dr. Roy W. Spencer, a...
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BWorld 462, Coal moratorium, climate and flooding
* My column in BusinessWorld last November 19, 2020.As of Nov. 18, 39 countries around the world have reported their third quarter (Q3) GDP 2020 and only the Philippines has had a double-digit...
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Interview at DZRH on comparative pricing, wind-solar vs coal
This morning I was on live radio interview in DZRH again hosted by Cong. Angelo Palmones. Topic was comparative pricing and power stability of wind-solar vs coal, conventionals.Here is the audio clip,...
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BWorld 463, Senator Recto’s tax cut plan shadows Reagan, Thatcher, and Trump...
* My article in BusinessWorld last November 24, 2020.“Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets…. Whenever we lower the tax rates, our...
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Jayant Bhandari on the US elections
As usual, I enjoy the frank analysis of my Indian-Canadian friend Jayant Bhandari, I am reposting his FB posts here -- about the recent US elections, the woke culture, US immigration, related topics....
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BWorld 464, Meralco, QPPL and expensive solar-wind
* My column in BusinessWorld, December 1, 2020.In the ongoing woke culture, demonizing fossil fuels and some big corporations while glorifying big government intervention are very common. The lobby...
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