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Financial Crisis

Bernard Maddoff and the Philippines very long list of scam and corruption investigations

by reynz on March 14, 2009

Long… very, very long.
The list is getting very, very long. Pero, wala pang kinu-kulong. Puro lang sya investigations chorva. Mga pa eklavu, sigaw dito sigaw dun, then another kurapsyon. “Days of our Stolen lives” mapapanood sa TV. Trauma na mga Pinoys. Hallucinations don’t work no more. After the show? Wait ka naman nang panibagong nakawan. [...]

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Iceland: from 1st world to 3rd world? What the Philippines can learn

by reynz on January 27, 2009

Iceland: Bankrupt and in political turmoil
I was following this news on Iceland, especially when this whole subprime crisis exploded in the United States. In October 2008, Forbes Magazine ran an article about Iceland Teeters On Bankruptcy. Today, the story got worse. Iceland’s government is toppled amid the financial mess. They’re in a political turmoil. It’s [...]

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Managing people according to Reyna Elena

by reynz on December 12, 2008

Job losses
See this? It’s unbelievable the number of jobs lost in the United States. Milions. And it is going to even increase further with the bad news in the auto industry. Lucky you if you still have a job. And these headlines brought me back to when I was still working. Managing people.

My Italian boss
Besides [...]

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Money Smarts features: Kengkay of Germany

by Rainier on October 9, 2008

Last week, Salve Duplito of Money Smarts, interviewed via email Filipinos working all over the world to find out how the US global financial crunch is affecting one of the major sources of the country?s liquidity?the OFWs. She is publishing this week in installments the full version of their emails. Head over to this site [...]

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OFW and the current global financial crisis

by reyna13 on September 30, 2008

I received an email from our BFF, Salve Duplito, The Inquirer’s financial whiz, editor of Money Smarts. I am inviting my very, very close Overseas Pinoy friends (yeap, alam nila sekreto ni Victorino) to help her out. They are the following:

) Roni (Sands of Time) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

) Mogli of Sweden
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