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Tag: Rudy Romero

Chairmanship 101 for Secretary Duque

"He is one of the major causes of the PhilHealth disaster."     The hearings conducted recently by the Senate Committee of the Whole into the corruption...

PhilHealth should get advice from the UK’s NHS

"No more on-the-job training, please. Time to bring in the experts."   At the time he appointed Ricardo Morales as president and chief executive officer of...

Warning: PhilHealth is dangerous to your health

"The agency has to be cleaned up completely and viable safeguards have to be put in place."   When it has doubts about the safety for...

Grandstanding legislators vs. practicing lawyers

"There is a world of difference."     Anyone who knows anything about corporate lawyers’ handling of government-regulation matters must have been shocked and dismayed by the...

The 2022 presidential race

"Three probable candidates are women."     Twenty-one months before the next presidential election, there already are indications of who will likely be seeking the nation’s highest...

Fiscal policy has failed the economy

"There is still time to do better."     When the government placed on lockdown the most important parts of this country’s economy, it temporarily ended, for...

Small business scorecard: Infections, recoveries, death

"The damage has been enormous."     Of the statistics that the IATF (Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases) regularly releases to the...

2Q GDP decline probably more than 16.5%

"Bad times still lie ahead."     Of all the statistical data from the National Economic and Development Authority and Philippine Statistics Authority, none are more eagerly...

‘Pandeconomics’

"There is your regular economic crisis, and then there is this."     The world economy has experienced four crises since the start of the 20th century,...

A deafening silence

"Why has the Philippine Competition Commission been quiet about the ABS-CBN issue?"   It may not be the most important of the English language’s figures of...

Working from home makes sense

"It just needs closer monitoring." In economics school, students are taught that market equilibrium – the balance between demand and supply – is the desideratum....

Oligarchs rebuilt economies of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

"The zaibatsus, chaebols and taipans did the job more quickly and with greater efficiency in the use of resources."   There are several similarities between Japan,...

No oligarchy where there is no collusion

"Success does not make a businessman an oligarch." The economy of any modern-day country may be said to be composed of two parts. The first part...

The English language’s downs

"There are so many two-syllable words ending with “down.”"   As a result of its deployment against the novel coronavirus, the two-syllable English word “lockdown” has...
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