At first glance, the impeachment complaints filed against President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. and Vice-President Sara Duterte appear ill-timed. With 2025 growth sharply undershooting expectations and 2026 prospects softening, politically explosive moves risk amplifying uncertainty. That concern is understandable but ultimately misplaced. What defines the growth moment is not just the magnitude of the slowdown in […]

Recent developments should have stripped away any lingering complacency about the Philippine economy’s post-pandemic recovery. Growth forecasts for the country have been revised downward by major international financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank as well as by credit rating agencies. These revisions reflect a confluence of […]

Some 13 years ago, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz published The Price of Inequality. He anticipated that readers might be surprised to encounter a chapter on macroeconomics — growth, inflation, interest rates, and employment — in a book ostensibly about inequality. Yet the connection is fundamental. Macroeconomic instability is not socially neutral. When inflation accelerates, […]

As the nation crossed into 2026, the annual ritual of New Year’s resolutions once again crowded our public discourse. The Philippine Government announces yet another reform agenda, our political leaders issue promises of change, and citizens renew long-held hopes. Yet experience, both personal and collective, instructs us that most resolutions do not endure. Studies show […]

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte reiterated that she did not know her alleged bagman and neither confirmed nor denied reports that she visited jailed former congressman Arnolfo Teves inside Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig. She also refused to give a Christmas message to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as she believed his demeanor would not change. In a press briefing in Davao City on Thursday, Duterte stressed that she did not know self-confessed intelligence analyst Ramil Madriaga who claimed that he was part of the campaign team of the then Davao City mayor in 2022.