At the BSP plenum on Friday, Prime Minister Oresharski presented his action plan to his socialist colleagues. The Oresharski Plan - also known as "protest as much as you want, don't bother me" - contains the priorities of the "program government" of the ruling BSP-DPS coalition.
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Plan O: Keynesianism, Shurobaginism, a bloated welfare state
At the BSP plenum on Friday, Prime Minister Oresharski presented his action plan to his socialist colleagues. The Oresharski Plan - also known as "protest as much as you want, don't bother me" - contains the priorities of the "program government" of the ruling BSP-DPS coalition.
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In a popular blog post from 2009, Greg Mankiw – author of one of the most popular economics textbooks – outlined the topics on which the vast majority of economists in the world agree. Here is his list, and we have tried to divide them into those on which we also agree …
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Today, the Bulgarian parliament approved the government's budget update proposal in first reading. The bill envisages an increase in the deficit from the current 1.3%/GDP to 2%/GDP and raising the ceiling for issuing new debt this year from BGN 2 billion to BGN 3 billion.
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A police officer who fights to protect his superiors shouldn't come as a major surprise to the attentive observer. After all, it's important who pays your bills.
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Among politicians, the instinct for self-preservation is particularly acute. In Bulgaria, this rule applies with double force, and the leading figures in our country recognize the danger from afar. Boyko Borisov and Sergey Stanishev are no exception. Their timid attempts at rapprochement last week showed that both are under great pressure, and the parties, …
More »So much for financial stability
More than a month of protests involving thousands of people do not seem to bother the ruling party – they not only have no intention of resigning, but also continue to pursue harmful policies. The latest manifestation of this was the update of the state budget. The article will analyze the arguments that justify this move.
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The idea of a so-called unconditional basic income (UBI) has gained some popularity in recent weeks. It represents a minimum amount that every citizen of a country would receive, regardless of whether or not they work. Why a UBI is a bad idea, read here.
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Over the past 100 years, we have seen several distinct parallels between crises and construction, all of which have played out quite similarly. New York’s Singer and Metropolitan Life skyscrapers were completed in 1908 and 1909, at the height of the Panic of 1907. In the early years of the Great Depression, New York City’s buildings were rediscovered…
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If there is one thinker who has been brave enough to speak openly about the nature of civil protest, it is Niccolò Machiavelli. In his reflections on the first ten books of the Roman historian Livy, he calls protesters “an uncontrollable mob,” sweeping away everything before them, whether it is useful or not…
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