*We present to you a study by EKIP between the regulation of the education systems in our country and in the UK. A suitable topic when we think about changes we want to see in Bulgaria or mistakes we do not want to repeat. As in Bulgaria, the education system of England is dominated by state educational institutions for …
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Guest Comment: To Die for the State
I read Evgeniy Dainov's article "Will you fight for your homeland?", in which he is outraged that most of his students have no desire to fight against foreign invaders. Leaving the "Left" and the "Right" aside, I recall what a Macedonian told me about a year ago: - "There is a difference between homeland ...
More »What will the ECB's new monetary measures lead to?
The short answer to the question in the title is “nothing,” or at least none of the goals that European central bankers state to the public. But before that, let’s take a look at the details of the decisions. At its last meeting on September 4, 2014, the board of the European Central Bank (ECB) took several measures that …
More »The Bulgarian right – raises taxes and spends more
For those familiar with the nature and history of major political movements in the US and UK, it is clear that one of the main elements of what is considered the “right” is the so-called fiscal conservatism. The idea that the state apparatus should (at a minimum) spend as much as it can collect through the tax system, and …
More »Canada shows it can be done
Janet Nielsen Canada was once a laughing stock when it came to economic freedom. A Wall Street Journal article in the mid-1990s called the country an “honorary member of the Third World” because of its out-of-control debt and government spending. But today, the same country leads the G8 in economic indicators, and …
More »European vacuum cleaners and their apologists
We propose something really interesting - a combination of a guest commentary by Kuzman Iliev and our editor Stoyan Panchev - in one Kuzman Iliev Europe banned vacuum cleaners with a power of over 1,600W, which became the reason for writing the article in the newspaper Dnevnik "Economics of the banned vacuum cleaner", with author Yulian Popov. "The debate ...
More »Life without McDouble
Jeffrey Tucker I'm thrilled when McDonald's hamburgers get the attention they deserve. That's what happened last year, when Stephen Dubner, co-author of "Freakonomics," made the provocative claim that they're the cheapest, most nutritious food in human history. The fact that we dare to reject that claim actually shows how spoiled we are. …
More »Commissioned science, economic principles and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
At the very end of last week, the results of a study commissioned by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and conducted by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences were published, which concluded that: "Minimum social security income (MSI) and the minimum wage (MW) do not negatively affect employment and do not reduce it." These are ...
More »Price controls – a recipe for economic problems
The law is very rarely – or rather, almost never – a reflection of reality. On the contrary – the law is a reflection of the will of the legislator regarding what reality should be. It is for this reason that most attempts to model human behavior with the help of legislation are doomed ...
More »Victims of totalitarianism, whataboutism and what to remember
Today we honor the victims of totalitarianism, especially two of its most horrific manifestations – Nazism and Communism, which led to the deaths of millions and the destruction of human well-being for decades. On this occasion, we have published some statistics from “The Black Book of Communism”, a volume by Harvard University Press, in which …
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