Crumbling house that debt built
Empires are not built to fail. But sometimes they are built slightly faster than they can afford.
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Empires are not built to fail. But sometimes they are built slightly faster than they can afford.
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Hard pork in the form of infrastructure spending remained alive despite assurances that discretionary allocations were being stripped away.
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External debt, meanwhile, jumped 4.81 percent to P5.95 trillion from P5.68 trillion, as the peso’s depreciation inflated the peso equivalent of foreign…
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At the heart of this mandate lies a tension that must be constantly managed: the duty to inform the public, and the duty to protect the process.
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When people call on the President, Vice President, and other top officials to release their SALNs, the response is often delay, deflection, or outright…
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A certain old-money holding firm has been found by Nosy Tarsee to be staring down a refinancing wall that could test even its most loyal bankers.
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Which well-known paper-and-stationery-to-agri conglomerate, long helmed by a late Tsinoy tycoon celebrated as a self-made success story and hybrid rice…
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College educational loans have mired many American students in deep debt after graduation.
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This conglomerate acts as a holding company and a collector of dividends in good times, but it is, at the moment, an insurer of last resort.
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Two patriarchs once stood shoulder to shoulder atop a major Philippine bank in the practical style of old Manila capitalism. One served as chairman, the other…
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The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) opened public bidding Monday for more than P1.27 billion worth of vehicles intended to modernize the…
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The Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency Philippines (CBITP) will be launched today, 20 April, at the Marco Polo Ortigas Manila.
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PhilHealth said it is strengthening monitoring and auditing systems following reports of discrepancies between information given to patients and claims…
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Fueling the petition were recent rumors and online claims about Marcos’s health, including alleged hospital visits and speculation that he was confined at St.…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday resorted to a little theatrics in confronting rumors — walking and shuffling as if he were about to break into a…
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In the tight-knit circle of Philippine family empires, where boardrooms double as family reunions and a handshake can outlast any contract, debts have a way of…
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Ejercito also warned that the Philippines’ heavy reliance on imported fuel and coal continues to drive up costs.
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The central government’s outstanding debt rose to a new record of P18.16 trillion as of end-February 2026, driven largely by continued domestic borrowing even…
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