‘Pray pa more’ for better times

By Amelia H. C. Ylagan
On Oct. 26, the Monetary Board (MB) raised the reference interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.5% effective Oct. 27, earlier than the...

Lung cancer: What you need to know

By Teodoro B. Padilla
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the Philippines after breast cancer, according to...

Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is — and he knows who killed...

By Christopher Pollard
Yanis Varoufakis grew up during the Greek dictatorship of 1967-1974. He later became an economics professor and was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015. His...

The social media evolution: Web2 vs Web3

By Donald Patrick Lim
Have you ever wondered about the forces that shape the digital world, the platforms we use daily, and the influence they exert on our...

Why hurry?

By Maria Victoria Rufino
Time is precious and elusive. It is the element we seem to have so little of.

Israel’s right to self-defense

By Jemy Gatdula
The movie Team America: World Police starts off with the counterterrorism group saving Paris from a bunch of ruthless Islamic terrorists that wanted to...

The Maharlika Strategic Investment Fund governance issues: Aligning with best practice

By Alexander C. Escucha
The International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) lists 120 funds as of 2022, of which 48 are members of the IFSWF which committed to adhere to the Santiago Principles (24 generally accepted principles and practices adopted in October 2008 in Santiago, Chile).

No, Gazans can’t rise up against Hamas

By Bobby Ghosh
“THEY COULD HAVE risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’état.” Israeli President Isaac Herzog...

Stabilizing growth: Declining inflation and unemployment rates

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
This column will produce another series, “Stabilizing growth” and focus on inflation and employment data of the Philippines compared to other major countries in Asia and the world. This is on top of the “Financing growth” and “Energizing growth” series.

Friends as bosses

By Tony Samson
CORPORATE RELATIONSHIPS go beyond job descriptions, reporting lines, and organization charts. Other ties outside the formal structure can affect behavior and decision-making. These include...

Demographics is destiny: the Catholic Catechism

By Bernardo M. Villegas
(Part 5) It is not improbable that the human species will disappear if the very visible trends prevailing in some highly developed countries of distorting...

A virtuous cycle of growth through investments in manufacturing

By Victor Andres C. Manhit
To say that times are more challenging for Filipinos now is to state the obvious. A Pulse Asia survey conducted in the third quarter...