The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez is on a roll.
Points of View & Perspectives
February, 2017
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19 February
Aging: It’s not in the mind
While aging shows first in the hair and skin, for me, it does on lids when slackened, the sadness of what’s gone and the oncoming night, hint the most at such external inevitability.
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12 February
Soros and the steak commandos
Protected by vast oceans as well as by a dual-citizenship status where as one who openly desires the downfall of a legitimately elected president, this wealthy person can, indeed, undermine and perhaps even fund the failure of democracy. Empowered by wealth, he can afford to be brazen. Born during the Great Depression in Hungary, once a satellite state of the …
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12 February
ERC should move on
After months of being on the hot seat, Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Chairman Jose Vicente Salazar can now heave a sigh of relief after the Commission on Audit (COA) cleared him of any alleged irregularities in the audio-visual presentation (AVP) project for the agency.
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12 February
Of him, who we hardly ever address as ‘saint’
In our world swirling in disparate states of mind, I thought it unlikely that in the tightening tangle of ideas, events and chatter, among millions jostling in cyberspace—which now characterize our lives—“love” as a theme should be nothing but a flotsam in the tides. Not so, I found out.
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5 February
Made in China
Some leaders have absolutely no clue as to what constitutes a new world economic order, thinking it merely involves re-alliances. Where these are products of whim, on one end, and vitriolic tempers, on another, then reckless utterances blabbered can have hidden consequences.
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5 February
Lobby group tapped to oust Gina Lopez?
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez last week announced the closure and suspension of 28 large-scale mining firms for violating environmental laws and mining safety standards.
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5 February
Love, at any time
Where Cinderella stories have sucked in even cynics with a magnetic pull, love — so like a whirlpool that a would-be king gave up his throne like Edward did– easily encrusts in universal memory. Yet, love nourished with improbabilities has run more prominently through poetry and novels, hence, like seasonal winds, waft in and out of our consciousness.
January, 2017
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29 January
Populism’s phenomenal platform
As in the phenomenon of non-violent revolutions, the concept of a peaceful anti-establishment movement seemed to have had its first appearance among Filipinos. The Edsa People Power Revolution predates the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the Occupy Wall Street Movement in New York, the United Kingdom’s Brexit and the Forgotten Man mandate of Donald Trump.
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29 January
Race on for next BSP governor
While tributes have been pouring in for outgoing Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr., speculations as to who would succeed him have intensified.