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DEMAND AND SUPPLY
Health is wealth
by Boo Chanco - January 20, 2025 - 12:00am
It doesn’t get any clearer than this: good public health promotes economic growth.
Weak link in power sector
by Boo Chanco - January 17, 2025 - 12:00am
Energy Secretary Popo Lotilla is very hopeful that 2025 will be a better year for the power sector.
Can NGCP resist Maharlika?
by Boo Chanco - January 15, 2025 - 12:00am
There is no reason for NGCP’s equity holders to welcome the interest of Maharlika Fund to buy into the company.
Investment, daw?
by Boo Chanco - January 13, 2025 - 12:00am
Whoever is the not-so-bright economic adviser who convinced BBM to launch Maharlika as a sovereign wealth or investment fund did him and the country a big disfavor.
Getting dream projects done
by Boo Chanco - January 10, 2025 - 12:00am
A big explanation why we are such a mess today is our government’s usual inability to execute good plans.
Building classrooms
by Boo Chanco - January 8, 2025 - 12:00am
The moral mayhem over the pork-laden 2025 national budget brings up the question of whether we can trust the government to properly invest in the things we need to get our people out of poverty and the country out...
Shamelessly fooling us
by Boo Chanco - January 6, 2025 - 12:00am
We have been shamelessly betrayed by our officials, from BBM to our elected leaders in Congress in the enactment of the 2025 national budget.
Cultural models
by Boo Chanco - January 3, 2025 - 12:00am
There was this posting on X that revealed “only 31 percent of American 8th graders are proficient in reading… 30 percent are below basic readers or functionally illiterate
A declining inflation of hope
by Boo Chanco - January 1, 2025 - 12:00am
We always like to believe that Filipinos are a happy and resilient people, seemingly unfazed by the bigger and bigger challenges faced as a consequence of bad governance.
Doing housing right
by Boo Chanco - December 30, 2024 - 12:00am
Just got back from spending the Christmas holidays with my son and his family in Singapore.
Crime and punishment
by Boo Chanco - December 27, 2024 - 12:00am
There are some folks who think that foreign investors avoid us because we are too corrupt.
Spread love this Christmas
by Boo Chanco - December 25, 2024 - 12:00am
The Christmas spirit seems to have escaped me these days. The song that keeps repeating in my head isn’t a Christmas carol but a Burt Bacharach classic from my high school years.
Poor business model
by Boo Chanco - December 23, 2024 - 12:00am
The Metro Manila condo oversupply, now equivalent to 34 months, is not surprising.
Rich country, poor country
by Boo Chanco - December 20, 2024 - 12:00am
Every time I go to Singapore to visit my son and his family, I can’t help but wonder how a small island about the size of Metro Manila but half its population and with no natural resources can be a First World...
Unsustainable greed
by Boo Chanco - December 18, 2024 - 12:00am
It is time members of Congress and other top officials realize that their continued plunder of the National Treasury through all varieties of pork barrel funds is definitely unsustainable. The government can only...
Still struggling as always
by Boo Chanco - December 16, 2024 - 12:00am
One major reason why foreign investors avoid putting up manufacturing plants here is our iffy power situation. We are notorious for red and yellow alerts in our power grids because the margin between demand and supply...
How we have fallen
by Boo Chanco - December 13, 2024 - 12:00am
It’s so heartbreaking for our generation to see how we have fallen through the years.
Technology boom in ASEAN
by Boo Chanco - December 11, 2024 - 12:00am
Secretary Deck Go is right. Malaysia and Vietnam are enjoying a technology boom as billions of dollars in FDI poured in the wake of a rush to protect high tech products from the threatened Trump tariffs starting...
Praise releases
by Boo Chanco - December 9, 2024 - 12:00am
The big problem with our government, past and present, is the credibility gap between official pronouncements and execution.
Smart government
by Boo Chanco - December 6, 2024 - 12:00am
It sounds like an oxymoron to describe our government as smart.
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