The Philippines’ “Bucket List” – a vision for a better country
Before we get into the meat of this post, I think an explanation on the term “bucket list” is owed towards those out of the loop. A bucket list is …
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Senators in oligarchs’ pockets a serious roadblock to reforms needed to attract more foreign investment
“Filipino last?” Boo Chanco poses the question in his PhilSTAR piece of the same title today and answers in the end, “Our Filipino First policy only made Filipinos last. That’s …
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Labor Day serves as a reminder that Filipinos are workers and not much else
It’s Labour Day again and that time of the year when the familiar background din of poverty porn and rhetoric around the “victimisation” of workers is put front-and-centre and amplified …
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Why is the Philippines always BEGGING for stuff?
The Philippines begs just like a scorpion stings. That’s just what the Philippines does. It begs. It begs for “foreign investment”. It begs for foreign “aid”. Begs for loans. Begs …
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ABS-CBN demise: It’s the SYSTEM, Students!
The recent junking of the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN is a welcome breath of fresh air. As I’ve wrote on my previous article, I really, truly couldn’t care less if …
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The Philippines needs FILIPINO investment more than foreign investment
News is getting around that contrary to what doomsayers in the Philippine Opposition (led by their obsolete thought leaders in the Liberal Party, a.k.a. the Yellowtards) are saying, investors remain …
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Three ingredients essential for the Philippines to progress that ‘thought leaders’ fail to address
The trouble with the Philippines’ political discourse today is that it is hopelessly partisan. As a result, there is no energy channeled into mapping a way forward for the Philippines. …
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Key Duterte initiatives lay foundation for sustained economic growth
Continuing to send Filipino workers overseas to seek and sustain employment is a serious misallocation of human capital. Much the same way as wanton mining in the Philippine countryside took …
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