NEWS & ARTICLES

First order of the day is to look at the New Year as a time to change. January is when it is easiest to start a new habit, a new goal or even a new lifestyle.   But more than just our personal decisions to...

The pandemic affected the health sector the most as health systems became overburdened with the requirements of patients needing care, even as the health workers themselves were also at risk from the disease. Many of the first casualties of the COVID-19 were those who attended...

It is never too late to liberate yourself from an assistant. And take things into your hands. It is the best thing you can do to keep your brain healthy.   Executives are spoiled in that they do not even need to think of bills,...

2nd of 2 Parts   In the first part of this article which was published on December 19, 2022, we wrote about the twin evils of Inequality and Exclusion that led to poverty, hunger and many other dehumanizing ills of society all over the world....

This policy memo was submitted to the Harvard Kennedy School as final requirement to API 121 Recession, Growth and Macroeconomic Policy under Professor Karen Dynan. A copy of this was forwarded to the Department of Finance, the Senate and the House of Representatives for their...

1st of 2 Parts   For many years now, the whole world has been struggling with how to deal with the twin evils of Inequality and Exclusion. These two evils have led to worldwide poverty and hunger, and many other dehumanizing ills of society in...

When I learned that I was nominated for the “MAP Management Man of the Year” Award, I asked if I could be withdrawn from consideration.   I didn’t think I had done anything extraordinary to deserve the nomination.   You see, Washington SyCip, Cesar Virata,...

Inflation means a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money. It involves goods and services becoming more expensive over a certain period of time. Compared to the inflation rate in October 2021 at 4%, it has almost doubled in October...

The legal topography in the country’s retail trade sector has become obscure with the promulgation of the Twelfth (12th) Regular Foreign Investment Negative List (RFINL) in the last month of President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s term of office, since it includes in its “No Foreign Equity”...