Category: Stock Analysis
An alternative approach to agriculture
TUAN ANH TRAN-UNSPLASH IN ITS MAY 21, 2022 cover story on India, the Economist noted that the Indian government used a direct, real-time, digital welfare…
CHR should prove HRW wrong
CHRISTIAN LUE-UNSPLASH “President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.,” said Human Rights Watch (HRW) Deputy Asia Director Phil Robertson in a Sept. 28 statement, “just slapped victims of…
Greatness of spirit
LARM RMAH-UNSPLASH “To nurture a better tomorrow, we need to strengthen the child protection in our country.” — Dr. Bernadette J. Madrid, Ramon Magsaysay Laureate…
Time for a Philippine pivot away from China
BW FILE PHOTO The deal with having lived long enough is it opens one beyond mere book learning. Take Martial Law of the 1970s, of…
In harm’s way
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MIGUEL DE GUZMAN Uganda is now battling an outbreak of the Ebola virus, which causes a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in…
Iran’s ruler faces a formidable new foe: Schoolgirls
A WEEK AGO, I worried that the anti-regime demonstrations in Iran might falter if the mostly young protesters didn’t get some help from grown-ups —…
Random chess is future of chess and Philippine-born Wesley So is in its midst
GR STOCKS-UNSPLASH Although several controversies have rocked chess over the years, especially during the era of Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, and Viktor Korchnoi in the…
Tapering media coverage
BW FILE PHOTO LOWERING the profile even of a highly noteworthy personality, like the leader of the nation, is a new discipline. The low-visibility approach…
Addressing the Philippine education crisis: Upskilling, reskilling and retooling
LIFESTYLEMEMORY/§FREEPIK (Part 2) If we have the goal of transitioning from being an upper middle-income economy to a high-income economy (with a per capita income…
A revitalized US alliance: Pivot, or slow boat back to Washington?
BW FILE PHOTO On Sept. 29, 2022, Philippine Department of National Defense (DND) Undersecretary and Officer-in-Charge Jose Faustino and US Secretary of Department of Defense…
POGOs: What’s at stake?
(I am pleased to share with readers a post that Christine Tang and I wrote for subscribers of Globalsource Partners [globalsourcepartners.com], a New York based…
Panalo ka ng 1 million: The proliferation of text scams and breaches of data privacy
BW FILE PHOTO Apart from the much-awaited text message that your Lazada or Shopee delivery is out for delivery or the OTP that closes your…
Revenge travel
ARTHUR EDELMANS-UNSPLASH For many of us, the two and a half years of the pandemic was “lost time.” The pandemic disrupted life as we knew…
EDCOM 2: Lifelong learning poverty crisis
BW FILE PHOTO (First of two parts) The Philippines has a lifelong learning (LLL) poverty crisis — perhaps even worse than the widely discussed learning…
Economic freedom, power reserves, and declining births
The Asia Liberty Forum 2022 was successfully held last week Sept. 29-30 at Shangri-La The Fort, sponsored by the Atlas Network and Foundation for Economic…
Gatsby, the dollar, and staring blankly at the world falling apart: $till $pending
(Part 2) If there is one obstacle to the Fed’s hopes to slay inflation (and also to the desire for the US to weaken its…
Land consolidation is the answer
GABRIEL JIMENEZ-UNSPLASH President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. (PBBM) says that he wants to be known as the “agriculture President.” In New York, when he was…
Elsa Patriarca Agustin: A servant of the Filipino people
A FILE PHOTO of the Department of Finance showing former Finance Secretary Cesar V. Purisima administering the oath of office to Elsa P. Agustin as…
Women’s rights, hijabs and protests in Iran
HASAN ALMASI-UNSPLASH I ran is among the most difficult places to live in for women. Whether it be in the manner by which women dress,…
Gatsby, the dollar, and staring blankly at the world falling apart: Bound for the Plaza?
TIMIS ALEXANDRA-UNSPLASH (Part 1) THOUGHTS in the currency market are turning toward the Plaza Hotel. The stately pile at the southeast corner of Central Park…