No Free Lunch

Tariffs and tsunamis

I know it helps to look for silver linings rather than dwell on dark clouds…

Tariff winners and losers

What many now describe as “Trump’s tariff tantrum” is widely feared to lead to serious…

Still trailing our neighbors

I last examined how our economy is doing relative to our Southeast Asian peers one…

Our industrialization challenge

Our economy faces various push and pull factors this year and onward, making it very…

Bridging a divided nation

It’s easier to bring heaven and earth together than have two Filipinos agree on anything,”…

Vote for farmer-friendly leaders

Even as Republic Act No. 7160 or the Local Government Code (LGC) devolved agriculture services…

Time for an AgriCom

I’ve long believed that our dismal failure in agriculture is not due to lack of…

Change from the ground up

In my somewhat pessimistic piece last week, I concluded that the only way out of…

A self-destructing nation?

A sinking feeling that our nation is in a self-destruction mode seems to be setting…

Our educated jobless

Would our young people still go to college if they knew they are less likely…