The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
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.
Points of View & Perspectives
February, 2017
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.
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29 January
Encountering the Divine in sky apparitions
Cloud-watching to this day, for me, remains a constant source of inspiration—I bet yours, too. I believe it began when flying kites in the summer with my cousins; though I could neither make a kite nor fly one, I tagged along anyway, sometimes to their chagrin—when to keep a steady hand in silence, I’d be chattering tales I drew from …
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22 January
In times of turbulence
Allow us to start off with a bold recommendation, and from there justify with an analysis how this year might turn out, including where the horizon might lie four years from January.
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22 January
Andanar frustrated with his own team?
Last week, Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar issued a statement blasting the media for “irresponsible” reporting on President Duterte’s martial law remarks.
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22 January
When honest-to-goodness winter hits
While no blocks of ice sliding off glass walls or falling from the roof happened like they did in New York a few years ago, endangering skulls, these past weeks of heavy snowfalls in the Lower Mainland, a region that includes Vancouver, car crashes and hurt limbs have marked a week of unpreparedness. As Gwen, our strata president, has said, …
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15 January
Bye, bye Barack
This week will be the last week in office for the first African-American president of the United States. It will, perhaps, be doubly poignant and triply painful for the Union’s 44th president, Barack Hussein Obama.
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15 January
Time to review Epira
Will President Duterte’s administration be open to amending the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) of 2001?
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15 January
When music could be a miracle
He recognized me instantly. I had raked my memory but found no trace of him—a gaunt old man, toothless and graying in the skin, squinting rheumy eyes under thick tinted glasses, flailing tentative limbs, swaying as he walked with a cane, and held in place only when seated. As he began painfully in my sight to slip into a stupor, …
