Comments on: Chimerica or Greater China?

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:45:19 +0000

HAPPY EASTER to all!

By: mlq3

mlq3 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:48:39 +0000

supremo, yes, he proposed the union of the philippines and present-day indonesia. a spanish historian told me the commonwealth also made a claim on guam but i have not been able to find any record of that.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:39:23 +0000

Chimerica? No way, if American rednecks can help it! The American Bible Belt may be the home of a large number of fanatical Christians, but how many really practice the Christian virtues of love, generosity and tolerance?

In keeping with the spirit of Lent, here’s an article about how Middle America views Asians:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/

By the way, would Filipino names be classified under Asian or Latino?

By: Kaarl Garcia

Kaarl Garcia — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:31:41 +0000

madaming salamat, Carl!

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:54:42 +0000

Palagay ko, halos isang taon pa bago maramdaman ang epekto ng mga stimulus program ng Tsina at Hapon. Kung aangat ang domestic demand ng mga bansa na ito, makakabuti kaya sa atin? O wala pa ring epek?

Karl, tungkol sa furniture industry, halos lahat ng raw materials ay imported na. Yung kahoy at rattan ay galing sa Indonesia at Malaysia. Ang inputs natin ay ang labor at ang mga disenyo.

By: Kaarl Garcia

Kaarl Garcia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:59:12 +0000

happy easter na lang sa inyo.

By: Kaarl Garcia

Kaarl Garcia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:50:25 +0000

Ang sinabi kong proposal na solusyon ay useless kung walang pambili ang mga consumer.

Kaya nga sa China at India na bilyones ang populasyon.
Kung wala ring atik ang kalahati dito, di madami pa ding imbentaryo matitira, unless bibilihin lahat ng imbentaryo ng me mga pera.

By: Kaarl Garcia

Kaarl Garcia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:45:49 +0000

Since we lost our export market wal sigurong choice ang mga exporter natin kundi ibenta sa domestic market ang mga nakatambak na inventory nila.

Ang mga garmnts ibenta nila sa mga tailors,o designers na kumuha pa ng kung saan para sa mga materyales nila.

ang mgasemicon microchip
sa mga computer shop,cell phone shop,o iba pang shop.

ang mga furnitures pagkatapos ibenta dito sa atin,itigil muna nila yan makaktulong pa sa ating kalikasan.

nag eexport din daw tayo ng mga yate at maliit na barko.Kailangan din natin yan.

sa mga tao, ibang storya na yan

By: sa kiki mo

sa kiki mo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:46:21 +0000

Bumble and bungle our way through.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:00:18 +0000

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” – From J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher In The Rye”

The problem is that the rules are either changed or manipulated.

As J_AG says, “history is on the march”. Game-changing and life-changing events are unfolding before our very eyes. The financial system that we knew the past couple of decades or so has broken down and is undergoing a painful evolution that may involve fragmenting it down to more manageable units. The concept of “bigger is better” has been discredited and “too big to fail” has now evokes images of a threatening behemoth instead of a rock of stability.

Export-led growth, for the past 5 decades accepted as gospel due to the shining examples of tiger economies, has proven to be a frail domino when consumption dries up.

How will these changes affect the Philippines? Will the thrust of our richer Asian neighbors to develop other markets be beneficial to us? Will this thrust to develop closer commercial relations with countries other than developed economies enable us to spur our own economy?

There are opportunities, as well as perils, out there. Can we make these evolving changes work to our favor? Or will we bumble and bungle our way through, as we have done many times in the past?