Borrow, borrow more (as of November 2025)

January 14, 2026

Marcos Jr administration’s budget priorities for 2026

January 13, 2026

NCR Family Living Wage (Dec 2025)

January 9, 2026

Low real wages, more expensive food (Dec 2025)

January 9, 2026

IBON Executive Director on DBCC growth targets

January 6, 2026

IBON Executive Director on US arrest of Venezuelan president and spouse

January 4, 2026

2026 Budget: Sound and fury, signifying…

December 31, 2025

The budget that will soon be signed into law is rhetorically reformist but fundamentally politically functional, achieved at the expense of social and economic transformation.

On International Human Rights Day

December 10, 2025

The Marcos Jr government is losing even its token displays of respect for human rights as the country is plunged deeper into a worsening national crisis.

Gov’t debt balloons to feed Marcos admin’s huge pork barrel addiction

December 9, 2025

The huge increase in debt corresponds to huge increases in controversial indicators of pork barrel in the national budgets under Pres. Marcos Jr.