We beg to differ.
Money matters. Indeed it does. How to make it, how to manage it when you get it, and how to spend it when you have too much of it.
(As published in The Manila Times, Thursday, February 21) One of the key reasons Southeast Asia is the world’s most economically-promising region is the strength and stability of the regional multilateral partnership, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). With the debatable exception of the European Union, no other multinational cooperative in the world performs…
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OFWs, are in a way, like sharks. In a certain ways, they’re on top of the food chain when it comes to the amount of money they earn and in certain instances, in terms of the professional advancement that they achieve abroad. While it is true that we have teachers who end up as “nannies”,…
I was thinking about the future of the Philippines in regard to Expat retirees and the consequences are turning frightening and it is only the beginning. When I moved here in 2005, the Philippines was a relatively quiet place relative to the number of foreigners that were here or let’s say “I perceived to be…
You wonder now, where did the USD159,700 Marissa Tadeo Lapid, wife of Philippine Senator Lito Lapid, was allegedly attempting to squirrel into several US banks to “structure transactions to evade reporting requirements” come from? According to an ABS-CBN News report, Mrs Lapid knowingly attempted to conceal and evade US bank transparency regulations… A Philippine Star…
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For an entity that has spent a little over a year aggressively trying to convince the rest of us that it is some kind of “phenomenon,†just what, exactly, the creamsicle-themed “social news network†website Rappler is supposed to be is a question that’s still looking for an answer. And recent speculation about Rappler’s ownership…
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May kapatid akong tumatangis na tax computation/adjustment month na naman at masama ang loob dahil wala naman siyang nakikitang kapuna-punang pagbabago o maramdamang magandang serbisyo mula sa gobyerno. Kaya ang tanong niya saan napupunta ang binabayad niya? Sabi ko dapat sa debt servicing, infrastructure, public and social services pero  “paramount” sa lahat, ay ang sosyal…
The rich, those who profit most from society, are also those who give back the least. Today, it seems, that nothing crystallizes this idea better than recent news that BIR Commissioner Kim Henares “exempted the country’s richest 1% from paying the newly-imposed VAT on association dues.” Here’s an excerpt from Vic Agustin’s Cocktales: An official of the Forbes…
I often say in my articles that Filipinos refuse to mend their ways. That includes not only their habits with Pinoy Pride, but also their habits with money. We attribute poverty in the country to many things. But for me, one of the obvious things that people tend to gloss over is that Filipinos tend…
