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Wasted

by Alex Magno - January 18, 2025 - 12:00am

The printing of ballots, already on a tight schedule, has ground to a halt.

Safeguards

by Alex Magno - January 16, 2025 - 12:00am

We need some urgent refining of policy on the matter of online gaming.

Cosmetic

by Alex Magno - January 14, 2025 - 12:00am

Tremble in your shoes and prepare for Armageddon. It has just been announced that Edsa, this paradise of congestion, will undergo two years of “rehabilitation.”

Non-candidates

by Alex Magno - January 11, 2025 - 12:00am

We have some of the most bizarre election practices in the world.

Crippling

by Alex Magno - January 9, 2025 - 12:00am

Harsh as it may sound, fiscal management the past two years seems to have put short-term political expediency ahead of long-term institutional stability.

Smallness

by Alex Magno - January 7, 2025 - 12:00am

The 2025 national budget is an unmitigated calamity. But that is not the biggest tragedy for the nation.

Inflation-bound

by Alex Magno - January 4, 2025 - 12:00am

Through all of 2025, we will be battling inflation.

Bifurcation

by Alex Magno - January 2, 2025 - 12:00am

This young year will be a very political one.

Pork

by Alex Magno - December 31, 2024 - 12:00am

I once intently observed a friend patiently scrape the fat off the lechon skin he was about to consume. The sight made me sad. It was a futile exercise.

Cleared

by Alex Magno - December 28, 2024 - 12:00am

This has to be good news for all consumers expecting a reliable and stable power supply for our economy in the coming years.

Illicit

by Alex Magno - December 26, 2024 - 12:00am

Just as this administration was trying to impress the public about its seriousness in curbing economic sabotage, the Court of Tax Appeals dismissed on a technicality a case involving tax evasion through illicit tobacco...

Ventures

by Alex Magno - December 24, 2024 - 12:00am

Foreign investment flows fuel economic expansion in Southeast Asia. The Philippines, alas, gets a very small share of this inflow – a factor that might constrain our growth into the medium term.

Tainted

by Alex Magno - December 21, 2024 - 12:00am

The 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) was originally scheduled for signing yesterday.

Protocols

by Alex Magno - December 19, 2024 - 12:00am

Mary Jane Veloso is back in the country. But she is not back in her home. There are protocols to be observed.

Blunders

by Alex Magno - December 17, 2024 - 12:00am

Two presidents met their downfall last week. Their political decline was of their own making.

Sobering

by Alex Magno - December 14, 2024 - 12:00am

Donald Trump just conceded that grocery prices are not going to go down. “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up,” he said.

Teachers

by Alex Magno - December 12, 2024 - 12:00am

Our educational system has many weaknesses.

Unloved

by Alex Magno - December 10, 2024 - 12:00am

In the end, Bashar al-Assad slithered onto a Russian plane and found sanctuary in Moscow.

Micromanaged

by Alex Magno - December 7, 2024 - 12:00am

There is always peril when bureaucrats interfere with market forces.

Trifecta

by Alex Magno - December 5, 2024 - 12:00am

Sometimes, imagination is the missing ingredient.

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