The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
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.
Points of View & Perspectives
September, 2015
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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.
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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.