Cut the salaries of all politicians! Streamline the bureaucracy. No pork barrel, insertions.

Bro ure absolutely right! Especially if u r the one buying groceries for the family! The 10k budget before it ballooned to 16k now & with exact same goods! The middle class suffers the most since we have lifestyle to maintain. We are so Overtaxed & yet Underserved!

No country in the world will survive when politicians steal taxpayers' money like the Philippines. According to Sen Sherwin Gatchalian, the Philippine government lost 2.75 trillion pesos to corruption and inflation. I suspect this number does not even include the money that were stolen by Philippine politicians. How do we stop this downward spiral and improve the country's economy? It is time for the silent majority to take over our elections. Convince people that they are punishing themselves when they sell their votes !

We are beyond repair and whats so fucked up is no one is talking about it all were focused on is politics! I used to get a full pantry with my 1k now i can even get 2 grocery bags.

The corrupt politicians and their families will not get affective by their incompitence. If I am the next leader I will focus on agriculture. Make the Philippines food self-reliant. We import much of our food outside, if there is a disruption in supply chains the country can go to anarchy.

Oil is the life blood for the entire world. And political corruption is out of control.

Spot on! But the reality is sad really sad where do we go from here...

High inflation? Do what Volcker did. The Philippine economy has to undergo "hurt" in order to see the  light at the end of the tunnel.

Great analysis. But much of the fear today is still from external oil-related geopolitical issues. Once these & a big chunk of corruption are gone, there shd hopefully b improvement again. Not gonna b easy. The question is what do we do until then. We shd learn & make adjustments right away for the next 5-10 yrs regardless of local & geopolitical issues. The current crises shd focus on more aggressive but more efficient production, import substitution manufacturing, speedy infrastructure building, processed agri-exports devt, etc just to maintain a semblance of forward growth. Watch govt closely for 4 "horsemen" issues: Impeachment, Flood control scam, Pax Silica, 2028 elections. All 4 must be resolved properly to reduce corruption & avoid civil unrest since the "masses" don't need to understand economic definitions coz they are already dealing w/ harsh economic realities as evidenced by the reduced birth rate from 4.1 in 1993 to 1.7 today, which if it continues will literally be total genocide (not just economic) for the entire Filipino race. Dagdagan ang dasal kayod paniniwala & protesta.

The whole world is struggling  dollar purchasing power went down

Well, Filipinos keep electing corrupt politicians; No wonder the Philippines is like this. Also, we should stop the resiliency bs mindset.

Hi Jan! Huge fan of your articles and I'm surprised with this video coming up on my feed. Hope you'll make more of these!

This is good writing and I appreciate all the information. But the real challenge now is how you deliver this message to the masses more effectively. 'Percentages', 'GDPs' and 'fiscal policies' doesn't mean a thing to the majority of the population. They just need to know if they can still afford to eat twice or once a day with their salaries.

What do you expect from a government whose priority is nothing except politicking?

Just came across your content for the first time today. Awesome stuff, man. Subscribed.

When oil is over $80 / barrel for an extended period of time, it will wreck the economies of the world, Not just the Philippines.

well said it economics

Economy is always like that eversince

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Nice content. Very well said.