The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Social media observers say there has been a significant rise in the number of rants in the internet against President Duterte during and after his visit to the People’s Republic of China.
Points of View & Perspectives
November, 2016
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6 November
‘The end is near’
An ominous phrase, indeed, if referencing noxious clumps of both real and figurative debris, which for months, have gotten more and more bloated from wars both with weapons and rhetoric the world over, especially, one tilting on a friable balance, the US—where from an ad featuring both presidential candidates in a highly toxic race for the White House I borrowed …
October, 2016
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30 October
For want of a battle
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,” is the penultimate phrase of a short nursery rhyme and an old crusted idiomatic expression that illustrates the distorted trade-offs among choices that people make where they effectively surrender greater causes in pursuit of one lesser and more insignificant. The rhyme starts off with, “For want of a nail, a shoe is …
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30 October
Turning around regrets
Or more like retrieving a limb or heart chamber we realize we’ve left behind, which soon metamorphoses into a bunch of regrets, long after we’ve settled into our seats on a flight to another country, where with bursts of Facebook happy-face emoticons, for millennial and youngish septuagenarians, that is, we would begin a new life.
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23 October
The salacious sex standard
The issues and challenges affecting the United States in its presidential derby that the country and the rest of the relatively lesser Free World has somewhat adopted as the model of the ideal democracy and whose society many have subconsciously held as the model to emulate, at least in its perfect, upstanding, squeaky clean and antiseptic Hollywood Donna Reed Show …
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23 October
When lawbreakers are lawmakers
As we write this column, the media have just reported that the Sandiganbayan has ordered the 90-day suspension of incumbent Muntinlupa Rep. Rufino “Ruffy” Biazon over graft charges in connection with the multibillion-peso pork-barrel scam.
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23 October
Not really what you can call a crisis
When the cold creeps in not quite imperceptibly, nay, in a dramatic way—with leaves turning red and gold, then fall, as in a storm from furious gusts—you would imagine us, belting out Nat King Cole’s haunting, “Autumn Leaves.” Or like new arrivals, you might find us scooping fallen leaves unabashed—some would even send these home glued in albums; an aunt, …
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16 October
It’s the economy, stupid!
Stock market sound-byte analysts cannot be faulted. Theirs is not exactly the deepest bag of marbles.
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16 October
A colorless Black & White Movement rant
We can only commiserate with the political gang of former President Noynoy Aquino. It is obviously trying to reemerge in the consciousness of the public, only to look even more miserable, bordering on the pathetic.
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16 October
What home means to you
“Take a picture and enter a contest,” an item in my inbox from the United Nations Commissioner on Human Refugees (UNCHR) sort of struck me as a challenge, at first. Such a commonplace image, I had thought. Yet, it would take more than a picture for me; I would have to tell stories about the many spaces I wiggled into—always …