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Floods, money, banking and credit

By Tony Lopez In July 1972, Manila Bay and Lingayen Gulf had a date in Central Luzon.  It became what a British author described as northern Luzon’s “most serious floods recorded or remembered by man…775 […]

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PH’s four major problems

Philippine food prices are the highest in 100 years. In first quarter 2024, if you bought rice at the farm, you paid the farmer P24.82 per kilo, the highest in recent recorded history, and a […]

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BUNGLED BASIC EDUCATION

By Tony Lopez That is the marching order given by President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. to his new Education secretary, Harvard Law-educated Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, 52. That means a stronger focus on the 3Rs of basic […]