There is a nipping in the air, not only the shift from habagat to cooler amihan, but more so by the exciting atmosphere of an approaching Christmas. It’s five weeks away but Christmas is not a day, it is a season. And the season has started. It helps that the latest economic statistics were an improvement from their previous levels. I am talking about easing inflation (it’s still objectionable) and a higher growth rate.
These are by no means salvific to a scary environment of poor getting poorer and the hungry getting hungrier but it’s better than more bad news. Wherever we are in the political spectrum, we must not only wish for better times but work for them in our own individual capacities. Partisanship must not make our people suffer even more. The Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) was launched, then aborted, and now being rearranged through altered implementing rules and regulations IRR). If it was suspect before, it will be more suspect no