Category: Stock Analysis
Quick recovery as a measure of resiliency: ‘How could catastrophe prevail over us?’
Six years ago, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, senior fellow and director of the Latin American Initiative, researched and published for the Center for Global Development (CGD)…
The Undead
As fact-resistant as some Filipinos are, there is at least one issue about which they have been consistent. In one survey after another, 75 to…
It’s final: Lockdowns don’t work
This is becoming repetitive already but it’s very much worth repeating: lockdowns don’t work and a new study has come out re-confirming that fact. Medical…
The big barriers to global vaccination
Patent rights, national self-interest, and the wealth gap We will not be able to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us until the world’s population is…
Training for the jobs of the future
As we start 2021, COVID-19 is still with us, along with the many changes it has prompted in the way we do things. Many parents…
Big Tech’s swift reaction to Capitol rioters reveals new face of corporate political power—and a threat to American democracy
Big Business and Big Tech both reacted swiftly to the insurrection at the US Capitol, punishing and condemning those they deemed responsible for the riot…
Flying off the handle
NSEY BENAJAH/UNSPLASH WHAT FLIES OFF the handle is a loose ax head getting detached from its place, sailing dangerously into the air and hitting an…
New DoLE guidelines for additional protection of kasambahay
In a recent survey conducted by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), about 1.4 million Filipinos are working…
A budget for recovery?
In a pandemic, the prevention of a wider spread of a virus and economic recovery are the essentials of the day. Among other things, budgeting…
I spoke to 99 big thinkers about what our ‘world after coronavirus’ might look like – this is what I learned
Back in March, my colleagues at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University thought that it might…
The Great Reset: Leading for the Common Good
(This article, with some light editing, was lifted from the Inaugural Speech delivered by the author as the President of the Management Association of the…
Trump did irreparable damage to America’s image
On Sept. 18, 1986, President Cory Aquino addressed the members of the US Congress during their joint session. Said she: “Three years ago, I said…
The US and world economy these past four years
On Jan. 20, outgoing US President Donald J. Trump will leave office and new US President Joe R. Biden will be inaugurated. We can review…
Institutional failures and economic growth
I will state here what is obvious: we are seeing governance and institutional failures that have impoverished Philippine society: Philhealth, the Department of Health, the…
The Vaccine Gold Rush: What is to be done?
The advent of COVID-19 vaccines has created excitement. It engulfs everyone. Finally, after months of waiting while we put up our best defenses to protect…
How healthy is the economy and the financial system?
Filipinos are worried about the future of the economy — and for good reason. The heavy handed lockdown pushed many businesses to bankruptcy, especially micro,…
Food: Waste not, want not
WHEN I was a very young child, my parents would constantly remind me during meal time of the importance of finishing all the food on…
Fitch and Moody’s: Qualified Rating Actions
It’s most interesting juxtaposition between the varied accounts and perspectives on the pandemic and the Authorities’ optimistic view of the Philippine economy this year and…
Trump’s triumph
With only a little exaggeration did some analysts call it an insurrection — an attempt to overthrow the US government. Incited by Donald Trump to…
Other-ness
The whole world has been rushing forward at a dizzying speed for decades. There was a mad rush to meet deadlines, to accomplish goals, to…