The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Many can’t seem to believe the ludicrousness of the announcement that a representative mouthpiece of the ruling Liberal Party (LP) recently discharged to hacks and hounds salivating for press releases.
Points of View & Perspectives
September, 2015
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13 September
What Customs won’t find in a ‘balikbayan’ box
Or how the worth of goods in it could be missed outright because they’re really more than the symbols of OFW “sacrifices and hardships,” which then-President Corazon Aquino’s amendment to the Tariff Law that exempts it, honors. What then could they truly be? Try mulling over on these:
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13 September
Pockets of success in managing Edsa traffic
Amid the pestilential rains, floods and traffic that overwhelmed thousands of motorists and commuters in Metro Manila last week, there were a few notable areas where operatives of the Highway Patrol Group (HPG) under the Philippine National Police were able to score some brownie points.
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13 September
Trump on ‘Tonight Show:’ Will apologize ‘if I’m ever wrong’
By Frazier Moore / The Associated Press New York—Donald Trump clarified, sort of, a long-standing question about his personality during an appearance on Friday’s Tonight Show.
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6 September
Beggar thy neighbor
The war did not just erupt a few weeks ago. What happened recently, the deliberate devaluation by as much as 2 percent of the yuan was merely the latest skirmish in festering hostilities between protagonists battling for global supremacy; two titans whose military strength applied against each other remain essentially untested, superiority, undecided. In that, the rest of the world remains …
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6 September
9/11: How far away it all seems and yet
…(T)wo days before September 11, a friend fetched me for Baltimore from JFK Internatiaonal airport, cruising through a glorious New York sky, really other-worldly on summer nights.
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6 September
Zero tolerance for Bert Lina
The recent Zero Remittance Day by OFWs all over the world in protest of Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina’s P600-million revenue goal predicated on taxes to be imposed on balikbayan boxes sends a very strong signal from our so-called modern-day heroes.
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6 September
PAL’s sunny prospects
Talk is rife about a forthcoming image engineering for Philippine Airlines that includes a new logo, as the nation’s flag carrier, which has run into air turbulence that meant losing almost P13 billion in 2013, comes soaring high with modest profits. Credit for the turn-around was due to the big drop in oil prices, which constitute about 40 percent of …
August, 2015
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30 August
The dirty tricks department
The mudslinging that accompanies politics and trails behind politicians like stringy doggy poo started early for the 2016 presidential derby. The official campaign period is months away, but in a country inundated by pungent political partisanships, anytime is a good time for venomous divisiveness. Especially under a presidency characterized by petty vindictiveness, tracking dirt makes sense.
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30 August
See you in September
Anyone who knows this song tells his/her age, hands down. Not among millennials, definitely, unless a hip grandparent belted it out for show during a family reunion.