The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
What more powerful word-pair spurts adrenaline sky high, literally, than a wild ride? Out of maybe dozens to choose from, any pick catapults and then, takes you crashing hard enough, so much so that, for a minute, one feels alien on the ground.
Points of View & Perspectives
August, 2015
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16 August
Driving us crazy
Last week, we woke up to yet another horrific road accident, this time involving a passenger bus of the Valisno Express Liner that crashed into the concrete boundary marker of Quezon City and Caloocan, killing four passengers and leaving 18 others with wounds and broken bones.
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15 August
NLEx and SCTEx: A study in contrasts
As a resident of Pangasinan, I usually take the NLEx-SCTEx combo, whereby I take advantage of the speedier route provided by the two expressways. Travel time has been cut by at least an hour, providing a senior citizen like me a more enjoyable public bus ride.
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9 August
Mining and inclusive growth
When we talk of gross domestic productivity (GDP) growth these days, the discussions are almost always tempered by the attendant criticism that, despite resplendent growth, what growth we experienced was non-inclusive. What exactly does that mean?
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9 August
Am I two-timing?
A city is not a landscape, I now realize; it’s the heart’s structure recalled blindly within its chambers. But it has taken time for me to sense that I prowl Vancouver’s streets in search of Manila, the “city of my affections,” an endearment borrowed from word-image icon Nick Joaquin.
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9 August
Neal H. Cruz: Gentle giant of Philippine journalism
Last month marked the passing of an era in Philippine journalism.
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9 August
Can George P. make Jeb the third Bush to win the White House?
By Will Weissert The Associated Press LEXINGTON, South Carolina—George P. Bush is talking up his dad Jeb—but he knows he’ll have to endure some gentle ribbing about his grandfather and uncle first.
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2 August
Aquino’s ‘no choice’ choice
Unless one is a complete idiot, or a virtual gun is held to one’s head, the fairly intelligent will not likely pick a born loser over an undeniably certifiable winner as his successor. What traditional politician picks a candidate that the electorate has several times rejected because they just do not like him? The character flaws are too obvious.
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2 August
More than turtles: The truth about home
A kind of inaccuracy in how we respond to “where do you live?” strikes me just now—an address limits the sense of life we carry, which defines us, yet may never be known even to us.
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2 August
The State of the President
In his sixth and last address to the joint session of Congress, President Aquino failed to honestly and clearly describe the State of the Nation.