Shaun T. Dy's Business & Economics Perspective Blog

Facebook is a great tool but it can be misused and abused. It's very easy to accuse me of being a social media gossiper because this blog isn't on a free domain but on Blogger . I can choose to finally get a paid domain with this blog but I'm still lacking audiences. Last time, I remembered writing about social media gossip. The topics are how social media gossipers make terrible financial advisors , social media gossipers are terrible economists , or how Philippine Senator Robinhood Padilla becomes a victim of social media gossip . I simply feel like writing about this one because of all the talk against Constitutional Convention and Charter Change.  Last 2016 up to the present, we've had pages like Silent No More PH, Change Scamming, and Pinoy Ako Blog floating around. It's said that the pages belong to a certain Angelo "Cocoy" Dayao. Again, I'm no technical expert so I can't even claim I hacked into their pages either. I also ran into the Facebo

Bulatlat It's very easy to open Facebook (or any related platform) and find lots of stupidity , right? There have been idiotic comments I find on Facebook such as FDI is this and that. We can find "thought leader groups" such as Alliance of Concerned Teachers, Anakpawis, Anakbayan, Bayan Muna, IBON Foundation, Kabataan Partylist, League of Filipino Students, and Philippine Anti-Fascist League (PH Antifa) who keep ranting about FDI as this and that. I even remember somebody dared to say that FDI caused Egypt to dry up. Ironically, North Korea and Venezuela, two protectionist countries, have very bad pollution problems. I'd blame it that they don't have the money to do a clean-up drive. How can you clean up a polluted river without the right equipment? How can you expect better power efficiency with outdated equipment that keep coughing up, cough, cough, lots of black smoke?  All the talks on social media can be very funny. The big irony is that all calls for "

Syntrio As hearing for charter change in the Philippines (which I prefer to call  constitutional reform ) goes on, you'll get a lot of social media gossipers. In Filipino, the word marites is used to describe such people. Such talk was already heard during the times of two former Philippine presidents. First, we had it when the late Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III. Later, we had it with Rodrigo R. Duterte. Both presidents have had their hand in easing FDI restrictions. In Duterte's case, there was the Public Services Act of 2022. Social media gossipers (or mariteses). I could remember gossip like, "Foreign invasion!", "Duterte's gift to China!" or if I'm not wrong, Aquino III wasn't spared from such gossip either! Such comments can be very irritating to read. I'd like to write this post asking a question, "What wonderful economic plan for the Philippines do these social media gossipers have anyway?"  Boomers on social media may say the

Soft Icons I guess my frustrations today aren't so easily vented, right? Some time ago, I wrote about how social media gossipers make terrible financial advisers . Just reading comments on Facebook about the Philippine stock market makes me cringe. That's why if you want to listen to someone for financial advice--make sure that person knows finance better than you such as Lucio Tan Sr., Tony Tancaktiong, the late Henry Sy Sr., and the late John Gokongwei Jr. If there's another area worth thinking about--it's about how social media gossipers also make terrible economists. I guess the two blue birds that are gossiping above this paragraph should tell you how much I can't take IBON Foundation seriously (read here ). I could remember reading social media posts on Facebook when it came to several economic reforms. Similar gossip was written during the terms of two former Philippine presidents--the late Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III and Rodrigo R. Duterte. Aquino III had i

Tech Explorist I may be no top financial advisor or billionaire. However, it doesn't mean that I can't reject social media gossip such as how Facebook pages are filled with them. I was reading through some Facebook  pages talking about the recent stock market crash (which may be nowhere near the 1929 Stock Market Crash). What truly amazed me is how illogical arguments can make. That's why I wrote why I'd listen to Warren Buffett (an investor) over social media naysayers . Buffett has the money, made proof with it, and one of the things I'm doing now is gathering indexes while the market is low . I don't think it'd recover any time soon either. Right now, my focus is to get more stocks through indexes and feeders.  Some might boast that they have an Atenean or La Sallian education from Manila. However, does an education from Manila make one better than the rest of the Philippines? I frequently threw tantrums because I didn't do well in high school (under