The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
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.
Points of View & Perspectives
August, 2015
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30 August
Continuity theme bad for Mar?
It looks like the camp of Interior Secretary Mar Roxas has unloaded a good portion of its kitty on radio and television advertising. Primetime public-affairs programs, particularly on a major media network, is benefitting from the camp’s advertising binge apparently timed for the next round of surveys on presidential aspirants.
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30 August
At last, a housing research data center
With a housing backlog of 3 million, which is going up by at least 6 percent a year, the housing industry, specifically the companies that provide affordable housing, does not have at its fingertips the data needed to allow both the private sector and the government the tools to decipher what is happening and what are needed to make things happen.
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23 August
The BBL’s sinister semantics
With a virtual gun pointed at our collective heads, its hammer pulled back, cocked, chambers loaded with deadly ordnance and a terrorist’s crooked finger itching to squeeze inside the trigger housing, such threat to accompany the double-bladed and crooked scimitar already positioned across the soft flesh of our throats, these are effectively the conditions under which we are compelled to …
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23 August
Mr. Postman was at your door
Rarely so these days, if ever, isn’t it? Like most figures in what seemed a forever-landscape less than 50 years ago, Mr. Postman—Mang Mianong in my Ilocos childhood, who linked us with Papa working away in Manila—has been fast withdrawing into mere memory.
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23 August
Let electricity spot market work
A new Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) chairman was named recently. His appointment to the post was met with mixed reactions.
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23 August
Philippines to open base near disputed sea, even without US
By Jim Gomez / The Associated Press Subic, Zambales— The Philippines will go ahead with a plan to open military camps at Subic Bay facing the disputed South China Sea (West Philippine Sea) even if a proposed American military presence doesn’t happen, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said.
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16 August
Hairdressers over heroes
The Aquino administration’s blitzkrieg counterattack against the Vice President’s True State of the Nation Address (Tsona) centered on several aspects that ranged from the Vice President’s recognition of the heroic deaths of the 44 Special Action Force personnel (SAF 44) from the President’s twice-bungled Mamasapano massacre to accusations that issues tackled were old media headlines and, eventually, to criticism of …
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16 August
Wild rides
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.
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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.