ADB keeps PHL growth forecasts for 2024, 2025
THE ASIAN Development Bank (ADB) has kept its Philippine economic growth forecasts for this year and 2025, with expansion expected to be driven by easing inflation and lower interest …
Crypto, Investment, and Intrinsic Value
Crypto doesn’t have intrinsic value; neither does paper money and neither does gold. A friend who regularly reads both the Financial Times and my posts on EconLog and on …
Why Luigi Mangione’s Reddit and Instagram Were Taken Down, but Not His Goodreads?
Luigi Mangione’s social media accounts attracted swift attention after he was arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive. When do companies scrub a digital trail? Source link
Lawmakers ratify 2025 national budget
PHILIPPINE LAWMAKERS on Wednesday evening ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the P6.352-trillion national budget for 2025. Source link
NPL ratio highest in over two years
PHILIPPINE BANKS’ asset quality continued to worsen as the industry’s gross nonperforming loan (NPL) ratio rose to an over two-year high in October. Source link
DealBook Summit: Technologists on Smarter-Than-Humans Technology
Most members of a DealBook Summit panel described immense benefits from artificial intelligence and saw its risks as manageable. Source link
DealBook Summit: Women Need More Help to Rise in the Workplace
A DealBook Summit panel said a lack of helpful policies was hindering female advancement, while freezing eggs to postpone motherhood did not always work out. Source link
Learn a Foreign Language With Our Electronic Resources – Blog
December is National Learn a Foreign Language Month! To celebrate, Languages and Learning, the adult learning department of the Free Library, is highlighting some of the resources available with …
New York Times and Tech Guild Reach Deal
The union, which represents some 600 tech workers at the publication, had been negotiating for a contract for more than two years. It will vote on ratifying the deal …
DealBook Summit: Seismic Political Shifts Will Continue
A lively DealBook Summit task force agreed on little except that the electorate is restless. Source link