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Foreign credit raters are having a field day declaring us a big risk and consigning us to a lower credit rating. We watch helplessly as our creditors raise their interest rates and shoo foreign investors away.


They then throw us an ultimatum: Bleed the natives for more taxes to raise money for the foreign banks demanding payment.


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The bill-collecting wolf is knocking at the door

By POSTSCRIPT | By Federico D. Pascual Jr. | October 17, 2004 - 12:00am

AT THEIR MERCY: Kawawa naman ang Filipinas. We look pathetic with foreigners mocking us and telling us what to do – or else. And it would seem we have no choice. Foreign credit raters are having a field day...

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