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Blackout in Spain

by Boo Chanco - May 2, 2025 - 12:00am

Spain’s power grid ran entirely on renewable energy for the first time on April 16, 2025, with wind, solar and hydro meeting all peninsular electricity demand during a weekday. Then last Monday, at 12:35 p.m.,...

Wallflower

by Boo Chanco - April 30, 2025 - 12:00am

If the Southeast Asian economic scene was something like your high school junior-senior prom, the Philippines will be the consistent wallflower.

National priorities

by Boo Chanco - April 28, 2025 - 12:00am

I have long wondered if our national leaders had the right national priorities guiding them.

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.

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