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Tag: Rudy Romero

Christmas 2020: The basis for feeling fortunate

"Get down on your knees and thank the Child whose birth we are celebrating."   In the weeks and days leading up to Christmas, lamentations and...

National budget making, Philippine-style

"Does it need a review?"   To say that this country’s national budget-making system leaves much to be desired is very probably the greatest understatement of...

Sugar supply situation: Paging Senator Villar

"Either Secretary Dar knows about these trading maneuvers or he doesn’t."   There are three reasons why I decided to take up Steven A. Chan’s complaint...

Real estate sector bucked pandemic downturn

"What the economy needs is a sector that will act as a catalyst and lead the way to recovery."   (First of two parts) In February this...

Why threatened corporate giants will remain

"One cannot, with a colorful rant, will the disappearance of a business enterprise from the scene without taking into account its age and history." Until...

Under Biden, US is likely to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership

"The reasons make good sense."     Shortly before the 2016 United States presidential elections, with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton apparently on her way to victory over...

Domestic sugar consumption: The correct computation

"Our agriculture officials have to respond to this open letter that raises crucial issues on sugar."   Sugar is the only exportable Philippine agricultural commodity that...

GDP contraction likely lower but still large

"How is 2020’s final quarter likely to run out?"     With the recent release of the Philippine Statistics Authority of its report on the third-quarter gross...

No such thing as a pork-free budget

"This is because lawmakers are allowed to engage in the business of project identification."   Over the years, it appears to have become obligatory for the...

What will Cayetano’s Strike 3 be?

"This could be the worst decision of his political career."     The word “strike” and the phrase “striking out” are part of the language of the...

The Ombudsman distorted priorities

"No, sir, it is not all right. "     Is there anything wrong with the following set of statements quoted by the media two weeks ago? “When...

The book Dr. Legarda should have written

"My late friend had many official and personal stories about the early days of monetary policymaking in this country."   Considering that my longtime friend and...

The vice presidency: The great mismatch

"The OVP has to be given a decent budget to do a respectable check-and-balance job."   The post-World War II political experience of the Philippines has...

A broken institution

"Customs needs an overhaul."     The best time to write about a recurrently contentious issue is when it is not in the newspaper headlines or the...
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