Brutal greed
During past price spikes, major oil multinationals posted record windfall profits in the billions while consumers absorbed the pain.
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Daily Tribune editorials — the newspaper's official position on current issues.
Slick with oil profit
When your increase is nearly twice that of your peers, the market is no longer merely reacting — it is extracting. Cha-ching!
Where’s the plan?
‘A jeepney driver’s additional daily expense increased by P1,300 due to fuel. That P5,000 only covers about three days of increased cost.’
Base in play
People worry that we are painting a target on ourselves, questioning whether the country can still be neutral.
Teka-teka responses
The emergency powers that Congress would likely grant President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. can be employed to regulate the market.
Highway robbery
If these high-tech sensors are going to cause more traffic than a manual collector, we might as well return to the old Autosweep and…
Chasing headline disasters
A bigger problem is looming, which is overseas Filipino workers returning home in droves as the bombings in the Middle East intensify.
Ranking food versus integrity
The demand for affordable food is not a surrender to corrupt governance; it is, in many cases, a demand for its most visible and immediate…
Smoke, mirrors, ICI
What was billed as a vehicle for accountability instead risks being seen as a containment mechanism, one that addressed the noise of the…
Love it or leave it
The truth is Frasco was a doer. ‘When you said something to her, she implemented it.’
No takers
Jeepney drivers clamoring for a bigger increase to reflect the now astronomical pump prices… are left empty-handed.
Are we normal yet?
Each contact is less about inspection than acknowledgment. Like the objects require recognition to remain stable. It gives the impression…
BBM pulling DBM’s strings
Puno, however, pointed to the DBM as the culprit based, he said, on what DPWH regional directors and district engineers told members of his…
Mired in a mess not of our making
The saddest part is that nations bearing the most economic pain — from the Philippines to South Korea, India to the European Union — had no…
Tectonic shift begins
The rift between House leaders and the NUP likely stemmed from the party not solidly supporting the impeachment proceedings against Sara.
Beyond the barricades
Governments have always had a talent for translating anxiety into shields. Barricades rise, checkpoints multiply and security perimeters…
Caught flat-footed
Jobs creation in 2025 was a meager 172,000, far below the long-term average of around 700,000 and the target of employing one million…
War’s quiet winner
China calls for restraint even as it continues to purchase Iranian crude.