It’s not that the profs have lost their jobs. On the contrary, these university jobs are the most secure on the planet as of now. :-) But even then the crisis has hit our faculty offices. In the past few days I have received several 1) SMS txt messages, 2) phone calls and 3) just saying -hello [...]
Turbulence up ahead, fasten your financial seatbelts!
November 1, 2008 By 15 Comments
I don’t really know but is it due to my blogging here that some big honcho financial folks invited me for drinks in a tony Makati watering hole last Thursday? Of course I have known these folks before (some of them I knew from college,three big bankers and one exec in S’pore) but why should they invite a [...]
“Recession” is relative
October 13, 2008 By 5 Comments
I consider myself a lucky guy. I was a general management consultant back in the funny days of the Dot Com boom and watched bemused as all the Baan, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Ariba, Vignette, and Web consultants, among others, suddenly found themselves on the bench doing “Admin” work (and quite a number of even more unlucky [...]
Where Are We?
October 13, 2008 By 13 Comments
I am no economist, so this post is a question. It almost seems like you’re listening to a choir. Public, private, and even foreign financial and economic experts are saying the Philippines will be able “to ride out the” the economic contagion that’s threatening to engulf the world. But will the Philippines really be able [...]
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