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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Property Rights 2: IPRI 2010 Report

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Property rights means freedom. When someone says “I own this computer, this car and this house”, that person means he/she has exclusive righ...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Decentralization 5: Privatization and Civil Society

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I am posting two related articles below. (1) Decentralization and Privatization (posted in "People's Brigada News", a week...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Foreign Aid 10: Why We Don't Need It

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Foreign aid cannot really redound to benefit its target, the poor in poor countries. This is because foreign aid is government to government...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Global Capital 4: Facebook, Capitalism and Liberty

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Last August 10, 2009, I wrote and posted this:: Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other free web and social networking services, are among the ...

Jo Kwong rocks

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Let me briefly write about a good friend in the US, Ms. Jo Kwong, left in this photo, along with our 2 Japanese friends, Mr. You and Hiroshi...
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Monday, February 08, 2010

Abolish Income Tax 6: Income tax and VAT trade-off

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The income tax system in the Philippines is one classic example of the absence of the rule of law. The rule of law says that rules, laws, re...
Thursday, February 04, 2010

Boycott medicines

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After the 3rd MeTA Forum last Jan. 26-27, we have a forum for our local coalition, Coalition for Health Advocacy and Transparency (CHAT) las...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Uncontrolled passion for price control

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