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Of elephants and mice
by Boo Chanco - April 25, 2025 - 12:00am
“When elephants fight, the mice scamper.” When super powers clash, smaller nations must take cover.
Beyond corporate social responsibility
by Boo Chanco - April 23, 2025 - 12:00am
There is no need for us to have a tycoon or a CEO in Malacañang for quick results.
Our economic elites
by Boo Chanco - April 21, 2025 - 12:00am
We have reached a point where depending mainly on the government to lift our nation from the pits is no longer realistic.
The Lamb of God
by Boo Chanco - April 16, 2025 - 12:00am
Have you ever wondered why the Scripture refers to Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God? Why compare Jesus to a docile lamb? Why not a lion? Or some other animal that suggests power and majesty?
Come to the Philippines
by Boo Chanco - April 14, 2025 - 12:00am
Here is a bit of good news coming out of the gloom and doom of Trump’s disastrous tariff increases.
BBM’s legacy?
by Boo Chanco - April 11, 2025 - 12:00am
With barely a month before the midterm elections and three years to the end of his term, it is strange to see that there is hardly a whimper from the Palace about big legacy projects that will help BBM redeem his...
Reacting to the tariff
by Boo Chanco - April 9, 2025 - 12:00am
It’s been a week since Trump’s Liberation Day of atrocious tariff increases, which affected all countries including islands whose only population are some penguins.
Trade war
by Boo Chanco - April 7, 2025 - 12:00am
It was showtime last week for Donald Trump’s trade extravaganza.
Following rules
by Boo Chanco - April 4, 2025 - 12:00am
We Pinoys are not known for a predisposition to follow rules.
Can we feed ourselves?
by Boo Chanco - April 2, 2025 - 12:00am
If we are talking about the very basic task of feeding our people, for all intents and purposes, we have lost the first three years of BBM’s administration. BBM knew agriculture was going to be his most urgent...
The next level
by Boo Chanco - March 31, 2025 - 12:00am
The local movers and shakers of our BPO industry have been trying to keep a stiff upper lip about the dangers posed by Artificial Intelligence to their survival.
Can the government implement projects?
by Boo Chanco - March 28, 2025 - 12:00am
In the early 70s, there was a movie about the antics of a gang of ludicrously incompetent crooks at war with another mafia family who were also less than capable in the streets of Brooklyn.
Fake news
by Boo Chanco - March 26, 2025 - 12:00am
Finally, the day came when the purveyors of fake news were made to explain before a congressional committee.
Lessons from our neighbors
by Boo Chanco - March 24, 2025 - 12:00am
Have you ever driven through one of those plush neighborhoods and, amidst a row of nice-looking houses, noticed one house with a grand architecture but run down and obviously seen better times?
Stop budget thievery by Congress
by Boo Chanco - March 21, 2025 - 12:00am
Over the last three years, Congress reduced the budgets for badly needed infrastructure and social services originally proposed by the BBM administration, to fund Congressional pork barrel projects to the tune of...
A failing state?
by Boo Chanco - March 19, 2025 - 12:00am
When the late President Manuel Quezon said he preferred a government run like hell by Filipinos than a government run like heaven by the Americans, he didn’t have the prescience to know how we will all be...
Political noise and the economy
by Boo Chanco - March 17, 2025 - 12:00am
“Uncertainty is not a good thing,” JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon remarked when asked about the direction of the American economy. 
Tarnishing our international image
by Boo Chanco - March 14, 2025 - 12:00am
The inefficiency of our government is on display when two or more units work at cross purposes with each other.
Updating operations and costs
by Boo Chanco - March 12, 2025 - 12:00am
Disruptions can produce beneficial effects. Even the absolutely disruptive Elon Musk operation to cut down the Federal bureaucracy will uncover instances of abuse or outdated staffing and programs that had been going...
ABS-CBN pays its debts
by Boo Chanco - March 10, 2025 - 12:00am
I had an inkling it was coming.
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