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Business & Economy

CONSUMER SENTIMENTS: SPENDING NOW VS. SAVING FOR LATER

One of the many exciting things about the holiday season is how spending seem justifiable. We buy gifts for our friends and loved ones, we spend a little more on meals, and we buy ourselves something nice. These are all okay, so long as your resources can afford them while keeping the rest in case […]

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Business & Economy

PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR FUTURE IS

When do you draw the line when it comes to your purchases? Where do you put your hard-earned money? How do you spend it and how often? These are just some of the things we have to ask ourselves. Finding answers to these questions will help us determine if we are going overboard with our […]

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Politics

SPEND ON INFRASTRUCTURE, CREATE JOBS – VILLANUEVA

The government should take the lead in restoring business confidence and create jobs by increasing spending on infrastructure such as public health facilities and healthcare services, according to Senator Joel Villanueva. Villanueva, chair of the Senate labor committee, issued the call in the wake of the unemployment report from the Philippine Statistics Authority saying joblessness […]

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Politics

GOV’T MUST STEP-UP SPENDING TO ATTAIN GDP TARGET – ANGARA

The chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance said that all government agencies must aggressively step-up its fiscal spending for the remaining period of the year to help the administration attain its economic growth target for 2019. Senator Sonny Angara said government’s “spending catch-up plan” will be key in meeting the full-year gross domestic product […]