Shaun T. Dy's Business & Economics Perspective Blog

Yesterday, I decided to write against the Facebook page, Silent No More PH, as well as other similar pages. I just found another page called iMPACT Leadership which I wonder, what impact do they plan anyway? I even wonder if the Liberal Party of the Philippines could've seen this that if we were in a parliamentary system--they would be able to act as the direct Opposition against the Government led by Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. We would be having weekly debates between Prime Minister Marcos Jr. and Opposition Leader Maria Leonor Gerona-Robredo. Mrs. Robredo would have her own cabinet which she will have Shadow Ministers to help hold the Marcos Jr.-led Government accountable.  I decided to select from pictures from iMPACT Leadership. I would give some of my own common sense feedback as to why I beg to disagree... Thoughts on what Representative Gabriel Hidalgo Bordado Jr. said about his vote Is it me or do the boomers have the tendency to be stuck on the status quo? If so, why did they

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

I remember back when I attempted cheating, I had classmates who got suspended for cheating, and I felt stupid because my grades weren't good in high school. True, most of my college grades were above passing and I never had a single back subject. I eventually managed to get an MBA hence why I put the suffix MBA in my username. However, I'd like to revisit the problems I've had, the fights I've had with my parents during my student days, and how I really wanted to drop out of school too many times because it was "too hard and boring". I even remember throwing tantrums whenever I never liked the lesson. It was in fourth-year high school (under K+10) when those tantrums got so worse. It's because of the grading system that says, "Your grades will determine your future!" Even worse, they kept saying that with not getting good grades in mathematics and science, we're told, "Just take HRM!" Even our best teachers never knew that Hospitali

March is fire prevention month, right? If there are people who are too extravagant then I'd like to talk again about stingy people (read the article here ). I've tried growing up with the stingy vs. extravagant extremes. Some people become stingy even with the necessities. It's one thing to deny a child a children's party since it's a want . It's another thing to deny a child stuff they need all in the name of saving money . Even worse, some people may be more than stingy enough to ignore fire safety. A stingy person just wants to save. It's almost like the story of the Miser and His Gold or The Rich Miser . I really find these stories entertaining at the same time, irritating. The first story has the miser who hid his gold under the ground. Some people today are too distrustful of banks and investments. The second story has a rich man who even dresses in rags, denies his son's shoes, had his wife cook some cake only for him, and was so greedy he had it

I really feel that some people celebrate something but never understand it. I feel the EDSA Revolution of 1986 is just one of them. It's often written in history books that the late Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. is written as a dictator. Reading through From Third World to First did give the late Lee Kuan Yew's insights on the Marcos Sr. regime. The way Lee Kuan Yew described Cesar Virata showed that claims of a Marcos "parliament" were moot. The late Benigno Simeon A. Aquino Jr.'s humorous speech nailed it right. Aquino Jr. even mentioned every bit of inconsistency. The book is often used by critics to lambast Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., but have they really read the rest of the context? I'm afraid not and some people on Facebook probably still have not even a faint clue why the Marcos Sr. administration weren't the golden years. Once again, I want these people to read Lee Kuan Yew's entire book rather than just cherry-pick from it! Revisiting the Marcos Sr. r

Business World Online I'm currently invested in stocks via equity funds. Personally, I find trying to DIY stocks to be easier said than done. Though, there's no harm in learning it yourself. Either way, Warren Buffett recommends cost averaging into an index as an alternative (read the article here ). Though, I have zero intention to do day trading because it's absolutely just gambling. Charlie Munger would wisely tell the young it's but a speculative orgy.  From the Philippine Star, I read about how stocks are moving sideways . This would be an excerpt of what's really going on: MANILA, Philippines — Stocks will continue to move sideways this week as investors weigh the impact of sticky inflation and rising interest rates on corporate earnings . The local equities market sustained its downward move on the back of a busy week capped by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’  50-basis-point rate hike. The BSP raised its policy interest rate by half a percentage point, bring

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 "