Government and Taxes

Price control is price dictatorship. Or one form of product coercion, or industry over-regulation. There are many factors why the price of a...

I got an email interview from an academic friend who also works as consultant at the ADB. His 2 questions were, 1. What, in your view, ha...

The “3rd MeTA Forum” is on-going, January 26-27, at Diamond Hotel, Manila. It is sponsored by the MeTA Philippines. I attended day 1 yeste...

There's a good article in The Economist this week, "The growth of the state: Leviathan stirs again". This is chart 1 of the...

There are lots of noise to emphasize “academic credentials”, “legislative track record”, and related concerns in choosing the next President...

Here's one negative effect of the man-made warming scam in the Philippines: higher electricity bills soon. We will be forced to pay extr...

While searching for materials on drug price control policy in google, I saw this entry in the LP website, " Roxas: where's the seco...

I just got a long comment from a reader, Terry Daly, in Part 1 of this discussion, posted last January 4, 2009. Below are Terry’s comment...