A Rare Breed
Almost always, a man of numbers is not a man of letters, or vice-versa. But like in everything, there are exceptions. Jaime C Laya is one of them. The president and director of Philtrust Bank writes a column for the major daily, . The dichotomy goes farther back when you consider the fact that this learned man was once a minister of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports as well as a minister of the Budget Department and governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines. Moreover, he was a chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and deputy director general of the National Economic and
