Carlson Lleno

1990

[Carlson Lleno @CarlsonLleno]

Seeing them succeed makes me happy.. 🫡🫡

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Back to where I was 10 years ago

4/10/26

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

Did you learn anything this year?

[Carlson Lleno @CarlsonLleno]

Wiser, stronger, healthier 2026

#bye2025 #HappyNewYear

[Carlson Lleno @CarlsonLleno]

Alcohol makes you stupid or it shows who you really are? 🤔

[Carlson Lleno @CarlsonLleno]

I slipped up. It will never happen again.

Fckng feelings

[Carlson Lleno @CarlsonLleno]

2nd time around..

#TOTGA

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I've been on the low
I've been taking my time

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Let's survive this shall we

[Anna Malindog-Uy @AnnaMalindogUy]

The Art of Sounding Decisive While Saying Nothing….

The reporter’s question was direct: Given massive corruption, a sinking peso, a plunging stock market, slower GDP growth, and collapsing FDI, what is the plan to restore investor confidence and economic recovery?

Mr. President BBM, your answer was a weather report, a vague lecture on “global shocks,” and a promise of more public spending—with no numbers, no targets, no reforms, and certainly no accountability. You did not answer the question at all. You were asked to present a plan to restore investor confidence and drive economic recovery. But what you said was:

•A rundown of typhoons
•A mention of climate change
•An argument about the global trade structure
•And the blanket fallback: “We’ll increase public spending.”

Not a single part of your answer contained:
✔ A reform ✔ A timeline ✔ A target ✔ A policy adjustment ✔ Anti-corruption measures
✔ Monetary/fiscal coordination ✔ Investor-confidence repair steps

Mr. President, the question was about governance and economic credibility. You revert to blaming the weather.

EXCUSE #1: “It’s the typhoons.”
Fact check: Wrong.
Pagasa reports frequent typhoons every year, yet the Philippine economy grew 7.1% in 2021; grew 7.6% in 2022. Both years experienced severe weather events. Nevertheless, Typhoons didn’t stop growth then. Why now?

EXCUSE #2: “Climate Change” slowed down the economy.”
Fact check: Also wrong. Climate change impacts/harm agriculture, yes—but:

•The sharp drop in FDI (down ~40%)
•The loss of investor confidence
•The peso’s fall to historic lows
…are driven by financial and governance signals, not rainfall, not the weather. Investors do not flee or avoid a country because of clouds. They flee because they smell corruption, uncertainty, and mismanagement.

EXCUSE #3: “Global trade structure shocks are hitting everyone.”
Fact check: Only partly true—and misleading. Global headwinds exist, but:

•Vietnam is still attracting record FDI with a growth rate of 8.23% in Q3, 2025
•Indonesia remains stable with a growth rate of 5.04% in Q3, 2025
•Malaysia is outperforming its forecasts with a growth rate of 5.2% in Q3, 2025
•India is surging
•Bangladesh is maintaining growth
•Japan is recovering
•Even Thailand, with political uncertainty, is outperforming the PH in FDI inflows.
•China’s growth even exceeds that of 2024.

The Philippines, by contrast:
•Has one of the worst-performing currencies in ASEAN this year
•The weakest link in ASEAN economies
•Has one of the largest FDI contractions
•It is the only country where infrastructure disbursement collapsed due to corruption probes
•has the sharpest stock market drop

If everyone faced the same global conditions, why is the Philippines performing worse? Because the problem is not global, it is extremely, painfully domestic.

EXCUSE #4: “We will increase public spending.”
Fact check: Not a plan. No roadmap. Public spending was already budgeted. Increasing spending is NOT a strategy; it is an attempt to restart what corruption already broke.

IMPLICATIONS: What BBM Answer Signals to Investors and the Public?

https://t.co/PoOnzsAxZl seems he does not fully understand the economic drivers underlying the crisis. His analysis treats the Philippine economy as if:

•Storms caused currency depreciation
•Rainfall caused FDI outflow
•The weather caused the drop in GDP growth

In short, it signals poor comprehension or deliberate misdirection—both dangerous.

2. It seems he has no concrete recovery plan. If one existed, he would have cited at least:
•tax reforms,
•ease-of-doing-business measures,
•procurement cleanups,
•governance reforms,
•monetary-fiscal coordination.
•He cited none.

2.Investors will read his answers as red flags: Markets hate uncertainty, and a leader unable (or unwilling) to address governance issues signals instability.

Sorry to say this, Mr. President Marcos Jr., but your answer to the reporter reveals a troubling pattern: excuses instead of solutions, deflection instead of accountability, and rhetorical confidence masking policy emptiness. It looks like a performance of leadership without the substance of governance. A speech filled with clouds, storms, and global winds, when the real storm is happening inside your own government and domestically.

Folks, if this is the economic messaging coming from the top, it’s no wonder investors are heading for the exits.

[Carlson Lleno @CarlsonLleno]

Not an expert, but I can see panic

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History rewrites by the victor

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Stay calm. Don't panic

[Carlson Lleno @CarlsonLleno]

Kabute

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Last 2 months of 2025

#redemption2.0

[Lumen @LumenX_]

I trust in you, Lord.