While the Philippine peso is falling down like a stack of cards (similar to the ones used in PAGCOR casinos), the PSE Composite Index (Phisix), amazingly – perhaps to show its resiliency – had held its ground and even rebounded on days when the currency was free-falling. This only demonstrated the fact that money men…

He never complains and talks even lesser. He’s industrious to a T and is quite well off in life by ordinary people’s standards. Yet, he’s not the type to wallow in the extemporaneous showmanship of one’s material accomplishments. Forever humble, he goes on through the motions in life as if he is on a divine…

After the May festivities, it’s time to put things into their proper perspectives once more. The summer parties are over for the students, and time to troop into the classrooms again.  For the fresh grads, it’s time to push those resumes into the fax machines or attach them to e-mails and hope for the best. …

May is fiesta month in Manila. Streets will be crowded with people attending town fiestas. Will the merry month of May also herald the coming months – or, even years – of festivities in the country? Something to cheer and to be merry about? While jaded business traders may don’t care, the true investors really…

Manila mourns the death of one of its favorite sons, Nick Joaquin, who died April 29, 2004, in his San Juan, Metro-Manila home. It was via the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s web site, that I learned of the news. I had read quite a few of his novels – way back in my high school and…