How Duterte’s ‘change’ brought gross incompetence to the Philippines

Posted by JoeAm on September 3, 2018 · 86 Comments 

By JoeAm You can’t build competence on the back of deceit, bluster, and favors. What are the elements of competence? Competence requires objectivity and its brother transparency to correctly recognize, state, and size the issue at hand, whether it be the availability of rice or the best Supreme Court Chief Justice. Along with objectivity, competence requires … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Economy, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

Federalism Deal Killers

Posted by JoeAm on August 16, 2018 · 42 Comments 

By JoeAm This blog article will be revised from time to time as new information comes forth. The goal is to track the progress on development of the Federalism Constitution and build our understanding of the document being written. A constitution is a contract between the people and government. As such, the development of a … Continue reading →

Category Economy, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

Philippines’ era of golden infras and economic take-off – it’s hard to be optimistic

Posted by chemrock on August 13, 2018 · 96 Comments 

By Chemrock The Duterte administration promises their legacy will be an era of golden infrastructure that will drive the country to it’s economic take-off point, ushering in prosperity and uplifting the nation. This will be realized through public borrowing (both domestic and foreign) and tax reforms to fund the infra spending. I have written on … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Economy, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

War clouds over dark skies

Posted by chemrock on July 25, 2018 · 129 Comments 

By Chemrock In a globally interconnected world, protectionism does nobody any good. When protectionism rears its ugly head in the countries amongst the top 10 biggest economies in the world, global economic downturn is a certainty. Make no mistake about it. We are all living under war clouds over dark skies. A trade war is … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, China, Economy, USA/Americans

Federalism: Open Discussion

Posted by JoeAm on July 19, 2018 · 82 Comments 

By JoeAm Reader Jose Guevarra poses some excellent questions. Rather than write an article, I will post his comment as a lead-in to open discussion about the subject: I think it’s time to talk about this again, now that there is actually a draft charter with Congress. Like it or not, we have to think about … Continue reading →

Category Economy, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government