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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To be an independent country, the Philippines needs to build an independent economy
“No man is an island,” as the old cliché goes. On the back of that “wisdom”, it can be said that the Philippine government’s diplomatic posturings in recent weeks expose …
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My Wish List For This Christmas
I’m putting this here just in case somebody out there might actually be listening… Dear Santa, I have been a very good boy this year so that means I can …
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Filipinos need to get off the loser path and onto the road to real progress
How did the Philippines get to where it is now? It is a wretched society, unable to defend itself from foreign and natural threats, paralysed by its own enormous population, …
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The Real Reason Why PNoy Does Not Want to Lower Income Tax
So President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy), in response to proposals by some legislators, said that he is not convinced that lowering income tax rates would be beneficial to the country. He …
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