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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Random Thoughts on Where This Advocacy Blog May Lead To
As the year 2010 draws to a close and as I get deeper into this seeming quicksand of an activity called blogging, I could not help but take stock and reflect on a lot of things. Something definitely revealing like some sort of epiphany, came up my mind after I wrote the last article “Why We Should Support The Bill Limiting Credit Card Charges.” One cannot seem to take up a serious issue without touching on government policy. Hence, in the coming year, this blog would likely take a bolder stance on issues of investment literacy as they relate to government policy or lack of it. Continue reading
Why We Should Support The Bill Limiting Credit Card Charges
After the enumeration we had on The Eight Habits of Investment Literate People, I feel obliged to elaborate more on some of the said habits or at least, discuss something closely related. For this post, I would dwell on something related to the 3rd habit: the issue of credit card charges and why we should support the pending bill relating thereto. I can cite several reasons why this bill should be supported with vigor.
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The Black Swan That is Pacquiao and What Lesson Can Be Learned
For this post, we use the concept of the Black Swan as elucidated by author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his bestselling book, The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The aim is to see what insight or lesson we can pick up from the extraordinary rise of this erstwhile ordinary man that is Pacquiao. Continue reading