Category: Columns

YELLOW PAD By Jessica Reyes-Cantos Have you ever scrutinized the receipt that your local government issues whenever you pay your annual real property tax (RPT)? On top of the basic tax on your real property, you will find...

YELLOW PAD By Rey Casambre Fifteen months after the first COVID-19 incursions into Philippine territory, we are still groping for the proper balance between confining ourselves to the relative safety of our homes and daring to...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS Still thinking of what to write for the column on the eve of submission, I received a text message from an old friend, Doc Rogie Tangco. Rogie said he was...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Figure 1: Krugman’s workhorse macro model Figure 2: Achieving Potential Output and Preventing Overheating (Krugman)  The economist Paul Krugman wrote an essay in The New York Times (May 7,...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III and Jessica Reyes-Cantos The logic is simple. All other things being equal, the price increases as supply of the particular good decreases. Alternatively, all things being equal, the price...

YELLOW PAD By Pia Rodrigo “Delay muna ang judgement. Kausapin at kilalanin ang mga tao. Kumbaga learn from the masses.” This was how Ana Patricia Non, the organizer of the pioneer Maginhawa Community Pantry,...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III Photo courtesy of the author Good old pal Melo posted on his Facebook account: “I was scheduled for vaccination today. When I found out na Sinovac, I declined.” Our common friend...

YELLOW PAD By Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III For Easter 2021, amid the many deaths we witness, the message of Resurrection has all the more become relevant. But instead of attempting to write some sort of a secular homily on...