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Seeking a balanced life
By Casiano Mayor Jr. For almost a month now, I have spent most of my time, especially on Sundays, watching youtube tutorials on direct investing in stocks. I have made two investments in mutual funds lately, one in an equity fund with the Soldivo Strategic Growth Fund and the other in an index fund with…
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Is the Philippine tobacco industry dying?
By Mar T. Supnad SANTIAGO, Ilocos Sur — If you’d ask me, being a tobacco farmer myself, the tobacco industry is gradually dying brought about by government’s gross neglect for quite some time. Is the tobacco price controlled and manipulated by big-time businessmen? I would say, yes, since time immemorial! These vultures controlled it and…
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Filipino first
By Jeri Mae Calderon THERE’S no argument that the continued onslaught of the coronavirus disease aptly referred to as COVID-19, has adversely affected all of us –from the most-well-to-do families down to the least of our brothers. But Filipinos that we all are, it is incumbent upon us to rise from any extreme conditions just…
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A lesson we knew all along
By Jeri Mae Calderon THE last six months have been an honest-to-goodness economic standstill as most parts of the country have been placed under a tight situation in view of the community quarantine protocols limiting if not totally restricting business activities that in effect literally displaced everything — people, economy, health, education and employment, among…