I doubt if resident politico-socio-economic “expert” Abe Margallo has had the experience of going out for the night to pick up chicks. Because if he did, he’d probably appreciate the notion that you don’t get the good ones by using lines like “please hang out with me ma’am, it’s for a good cause”, or “please [...]
It’s that simple
July 4, 2009 By 118 Comments
While summing up the thesis of World Bank economist Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi in “Rising Growth, Declining Investment: The Puzzle of the Philippines,” Cocoy has tried to explain the puzzle in his own words: The answer according to the same policy paper (of Bocchi) is that while foreign direct investment has fallen since the 1990s, the [...]
The good, the ordinary and the ugly
November 3, 2008 By 20 Comments
There are historical patterns that if we care to seriously reflect on would inform us of certain repeated forces known to have driven great events, among which is this: That history is often made by people and institutions in power and by how their power is employed by them to produce goods and services for [...]
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