Even on a Lazy Weekend

I guess it will be quite some time before finance people talk about something else.
The Wall Street mess has pretty much set off the alarm for markets to scramble for contingencies. This as the ordinary person is left to wait and see how its ripples will affect one who doesn’t bother with stocks and financial [...]

Impact on a Walled Street

One of the big things I never got to lay a finger on here during my long hiatus is the Wall Street crisis. By now, even those who aren’t into finance, economics or current events would’ve at least heard the ordeal over that side of North America. By now too, a lot of experts would’ve [...]

Diminishing the Slice

The Philippines ranks second to the last after Indonesia in terms of the average annual salary of IT professionals. That is if the ZDNet Asia IT Salary Benchmark Survey 2008 is to be believed.
Early this month, ZDNet Asia released an online article summarizing the results of the survey. There the Philippines ranked 6th among 7 [...]

Which Yardstick?

I first encountered the Asian Development Bank study entitled “Philippines: Critical Development Constraints” over the weekend at Ellen Tordesilla’s blog entry, (thanks to leelock.) Despite the much hyped 7.3% growth in terms of GDP by the Arroyo administration, (which the report acknowledged,) the study notes that “both public and private investment remain sluggish and their [...]

A Mix on Structural Reform

An Oxford Analytica article came out last Tuesday on the progress on reform since the 1997-98 financial crisis. It contains an analysis of 4 southeast asian countries, (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand,) on the progress of economic stability and remaining structural vulnerabilities after the debacle that gripped the region.
So goes the significance of the article:
Over [...]

Blog of the Day: Money Smarts

5 years of fatherhood required me to take a look at the future from a whole lot of different perspectives. Apart from major decisions such as taking a look at the feasibility of acquiring assets for my family, (i.e. house and lot, family car, etc.,) the future pressures me with one thing I’ll have to [...]

Monetary Integration Poses Many Questions

An economics issue I’ve been seeing in the headlines of international business articles is the emergence of an integrated monetary currency for Asian nations much like the Euro. Here is a Financial Express editorial around last week which contrasts a lot of things such as political and economic considerations before the integration out west was [...]