The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
One of the first acts initiated by the Duterte administration to address past flaws was the suspension of audits contained in an eleventh-hour issuance from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).
Points of View & Perspectives
July, 2016
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31 July
What’s being happy
Jean and I had dipped into the subject of happiness after an impassioned discussion regarding the gray state, where elderly women living alone, who worked in low-income jobs, end up. Summing up their perceived condition, she and I opined, “unhappy,” as the simplest but truest description of their seeming solitary lives, insulated by hue-less walls, where dinner would be but …
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31 July
Challenge to real change
IBON explains why the 10-point economic agenda President Duterte cited in his State-of-the-Nation Address (Sona) hangs like a dark cloud over his pro-people economics prospects and even his recently affirmed popularity.)
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24 July
The REIT stuff
The previous administration had not only gotten the real-estate investment trust (REIT) wrong, but also bungled it big time, virtually killing it as an investment vehicle that would have democratized massive revenues, brought heretofore unattainable investments in prime assets within the reach of investors, and provided the property sector substantial incremental capital to increase both asset sizes and value. Recently the REIT …
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24 July
‘So do you write it in English?’
Still, Laurianne asked, even if we’ve known each other for sometime.
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24 July
Who kept Aquino in the dark and why?
More than three weeks after President Duterte assumed office, the media reported there have already been more than 300 killings related to illegal drugs.
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24 July
Oishi listing speculation hits stock market
As the stock market sizzled to hit another psychological milestone at 8,000 points, attention is now being focused on the next IPO (initial public offering) darling – Oishi snack and beverage producer Liwayway Marketing Corp.
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17 July
The two inaugurals
There should not have been two. Not in the manner of the pomp and public display that both had been featured, matching one against the other, differentiating and compelling comparisons where there should have been none. The protocol is for one complete with pomp and pageantry while the other, purposely private and placid.
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17 July
Two ways of seeing us
On a flight from Incheon to New York years ago, the stark side of how we mirror ourselves as Filipinos turned on me in the guise of a hefty elderly woman who had sequestered my armrest.
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17 July
De Lima should be investigated for dismally failing to stop illegal drugs
Neophyte Sen. Leila de Lima appears to be in an awkward spot.