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BBM, upheavals, the next president
By TONY LOPEZ Who is the ideal president in 2028? At a fireside chat-cum-forum with ASEAN editors and businessmen Feb. 24 in Makati, replying to a question by moderator Rico Hizon, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. enumerated some of the next president’s “must have” qualifications: Somebody who: 1) understands economics, understands how to create jobs,…
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Accountability
By Tony Lopez You are the brother of the king of one of the world’s greatest imperial powers. Your royal house has produced four kings and one queen in 109 years. Current King Charles is head of state of fifteen sovereign states—the United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint…
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A failing and dying democracy
By Tony Lopez At the celebration of Constitution Day, Feb. 10 at the Manila Polo Club, retired Chief Justice Reynato Puno declared: “Democracy all over the world is on the decline, including democracy in the Philippines.” Citing the 2025 V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Report, our 22nd chief justice (2007-2019) noted with alarm: “The world now…
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When rulers are deaf and blind
By TONY LOPEZ Our politicians, our public servants, are deaf and blind. They do not hear the sentiments and wishes of our people. And if they ever hear the people, our politicians simply ignore the people’s demands and wishes. They play deaf. Worse, our politicians are playing blind or are totally blind. They cannot see…
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PROFICIENCY COLLAPSE
The world’s super “bobos” (idiots) By TONY LOPEZ The Filipino child is one of the most malnourished, most stupid, and most incompetent children in the world. Nine in ten Filipino kids cannot understand what they read (World Bank, 2025), and over 70% do not meet minimum proficiency in mathematics, placing the Philippines at the bottom globally…
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RSA and SMC
By TONY LOPEZ I have covered San Miguel Corp. mostly relentlessly, in my 56 years of economic and business journalism, thru its various management teams and controlling stockholders –the legendary Don Andres Soriano Jr. (ASJ), his son Andres Soriano III (AS III), Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. (ECJ), and since early 2000, under Ramon S. Ang…
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BIG, BOLD REFORMS: PH open for business
By TONY LOPEZ This one is for Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The Investor Relations Office of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Department of Finance conducted a three-hour “Big, Bold Reforms” forum for investors yesterday at Shangri-La BGC. But media was banned. Three reasons Why? Three reasons: I texted the above to…
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TIME TO ACT, PBBM
By TONY LOPEZ This 2026 is a watershed year for President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. (BBM), a decisive year of either great achievements or great disappointments, an annus mirabilis or an annus horribilis. This early, the signs are daunting and easily intimidate the faint of heart and low in spirits. Unless he makes the…
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