The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
This time, the typically vigilant and characteristically incisive debt watchdog seemed to have gotten its messages mixed. As aggressively zealous as the watchdog is, caution and prudence still seem to be the best practices in any endeavor, including the most passionately purposed special-interest group.
Points of View & Perspectives
September, 2016
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25 September
De Lima’s political demise
Is the current situation of Sen. Leila de Lima consistent with the saying that “haste makes waste?”
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25 September
‘P125 wage hike necessary, possible and good for economy
The research group IBON says the P125 across-the-board wage increase proposed by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) is necessary, possible and good for the economy.
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24 September
Would a DNA result of my ancestry make me taller?
While the rest of us slipped in and out of inanities, as it often happens midway in lunch gatherings like a year ago in Westbury, New York, Lille, whose family immigrated from Manila in the 1970s, stared at her iPhone, waiting for results of her DNA from ancestry.com. “Once and for all, I can finally understand who I am,” she …
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18 September
The promise of employment growth
One of the strangest phenomena in the last six years under the Aquino administration was the dramatic increase in gross domestic productivity (GDP) amid nearly stagnant, if not negative, employment. Note, of course, that employment data are mere derivations—mathematical projections, like the imagining of a figure from shadows cast.
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18 September
A journal I wish I had written 20 years ago
But none of it would have been possible—after all, in improbability lies the essence of a wish; no amount of flailing to reach the sky from the ground, it’s like that. Yet, because the past hardly ever locks us in, almost exactly the same wish somehow pops up.
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11 September
Enriching the anti-poor
Some people in the last administration seem to have gotten their messages and mandates mixed. Ironically, the confusion seems to emanate from an agency whose very name encompasses a vast, however, focused spectrum that clearly spells out its singular objective as well as its singular target market.
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11 September
My name is Cicero, what’s yours?
It had stunned me so much so that I leaned to have a closer look at the operator of the Greyhound bus bound for Atlantic City.
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11 September
Give Duterte emergency powers now
Lately, there are concerns that Sen. Grace Poe could be silently blocking the bid of the new administration to have President Duterte vested with special powers to help him solve the grave traffic woes of Metro Manila.
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11 September
Beyond Obama friction, Duterte mends China ties
By Luis Leoncio The groundwork for the return of normal relations between China and the Philippines has been laid down in the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Laos that, unfortunately, was overshowed by the diplomatic row between the Philippines and the United States.