Quite an exciting year, wasn’t it? National politics was a great, bloody mess; rising fuel prices ignited transport and labor protests, the peso breached the P56 mark in the last quarter of the year, and our electricity bills rose. And after much debate, the expanded value-added tax has been grudgingly accepted.

With escalating prices of goods and services, and a much-diminished purchasing power, everybody is trying to stretch their peso and patience.

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