OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Tharman Shanmugaratnam, senior minister and chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), is not one who would simply brush off important events strategic to the global economy and Singapore. Referring to the recent confluence of the Ukraine...
The next administration must make the move from a consumer-driven economy to an investment-driven one to cushion the impact of future shocks and crises on the economy. Diwa Guinigundo, former Deputy Governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. (BLOOMBERG PHOTO) Thus, said former Bangko Sentral ng...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo If we go by what the surveys are saying, the possible results of the May 2022 presidential election may at best be mixed. Abstracting from their sampling designs, surveys convey different narratives. The major surveys seem to show that former Senator...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Believing that public office is a public trust requires one to search for integrity and honesty among the presidential candidates offering themselves to the Filipino electorate. William J. Bennett’s New York Times best-selling The Book of Virtues should...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Of the many weaknesses of the Philippine economy during the Marcos dictatorship, its heavy reliance on foreign borrowing to finance domestic investment was most debilitating. The idea then was to use borrowed funds to accelerate the growth of the...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Eleven years ago, S.W.A.T.: Firefight was released as a sequel to the 2003 film S.W.A.T. It’s now running in Netflix and despite a few gaffes, like firing a .50 caliber rifle showing no recoil, it’s quite engaging. One key take-away from the film is...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo It’s a punchy technology, this “Alexa” of Amazon, that revolves around Wi-Fi to access everything from Google to various music-streaming services like Spotify.Alexa is not one software that would hesitate in responding to practically all questions...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo As early as the third quarter 2020, still at the peak of the global pandemic, our alma mater, the London School of Economics (LSE), had already launched the “Shaping the Post-COVID World” initiative to debate the direction of post-COVID world. One of...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Two columns ago, we sounded the alarm about another ball in the air. This is the US Federal Board jacking up interest rates at least four times this year. We derived this conclusion from the IMF’s warning to emerging economies (EEs) earlier this month...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo (Let me share this abridged transcription of my message to the Fullness of Christ International Ministries based in Mandaluyong of which I have been the senior pastor since 2003.) This new year could be more challenging because of both health and economic...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo It is ideal to end the year 2021 with a loud bang of hope. There was so much promise to the other day’s broadsheets report that COVID-19 vaccines now aggregate 200.9 million doses, broadly sufficient for 100 million Filipinos of two doses each. As of...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo The last bastion of democracy in the Philippines is the civil courts and constitutional commissions which rule on cases brought to their sala. It is crucial that they keep to their constitutional mandate to uphold the rule of law and promote justice in...
