Filipinos with multiple myeloma deserve a more holistic healthcare system
By Teodoro B. Padilla
Every year, an estimated 932 Filipinos are diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood that develops in plasma cells found in the...
A risk-conscious pause for monetary policy?
By Diwa C. Guinigundo
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) finds itself at a delicate juncture as 2025 draws to a close. Inflation has slowed dramatically, settling at...
A Tale of Two Systems
By Monalisa C. Dimalanta
“The law of all progress” does not refer to a statute in our books or a particular scientific or economic principle. The concept is...
Big Tech always gets its way with this White House
By Dave Lee
IS THE White House’s artificial intelligence policy America First or simply Silicon Valley First? After this week, I’m leaning sharply towards the latter. It’s...
Why some countries stay happier
By Reynaldo C Lugtu, Jr.
y wife and I arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark on a gray afternoon after a business trip in Paris, expecting the usual European chill, yet...
AI and Philippines’ economic strategic directions
By Cesar Polvorosa, Jr.
(First of two parts)
THE economist Joseph Schumpeter observed that especially capitalist economies climbed to the next stage of development by adopting new technologies. The...
NBA Cup semis
By Anthony L. Cuaycong
For two years, the NBA Cup quarterfinals provided the Knicks with their version of Groundhog Day: a promising start to the tournament derailed by...
Messaging, messaging…
By Wilfredo G. Reyes
Okay, that was some relief for a change.
Malacañang, in a meeting of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) last Tuesday, asked leaders of both...
Recycling as trade defense
By Marvin Tort
The Philippines has a garbage problem that the world can see. Tons of our plastic waste continue to end up in the ocean. What...
Observations from my five foreign trips in 2025
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
I was lucky to have taken five foreign trips this year — to Hong Kong and China last April, Spain in September, and Vietnam...
Whose turn is it?
By Tony Samson
Queuing is expected in self-service restaurants, ATM withdrawals, and buying tickets from the box office. Exceptions allowed for jumping the queue may apply to...
Building mini dams all over
By Bernardo M. Villegas
After obtaining my Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in September 1963, I decided to accept the offer from the newly established IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain to help in the writing of cases patterned after the Harvard Business School (HBS) model.















