Close your eyes and start imagining. Imagine that you have been working for years and conscientiously paying taxes and social security contributions, although at certain times you do not like how the state disposes of them. Despite everything, you continue to believe that things will get better. Imagine that you are putting money into your own …

Voter Anger A huge portion of voters around the world are angry. Some are angry at their politicians because they lied to them about getting out of the crisis – supposedly it is over and the problems have been solved, and yet neither wages are rising nor jobs are being created. Others are angry at the weakness of their countries to …

Although they don't know it yet, yesterday GERB deputies gifted the next elections to Slavi Trifonov. They did it in the same way that Kostov gifted the elections to Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Parvanov gifted the elections to Borisov, Fidosova gifted the elections to the BSP, and then Oresharski gifted …

Business forecasts about the future state of the economic climate have a significant impact on investment in an economy. Theoretically, increased economic uncertainty invariably leads to a decrease in investment activity (Bloom 2014 and Jurado et al. 2015). However, its quantitative measurement is a difficult undertaking. Economics uses an extremely diverse set of methods to …

In connection with the media partnership of the Expert Club for Economics and Politics and the "Freedom for Hemp" March, our team set out to analyze data from a demographic survey on people's attitudes towards the possible decriminalization or legalization of the hemp plant. Over 2,000 people took part in the online survey. These are …

Apparently, the shelf life of a story in the Bulgarian public space is a maximum of a week. The entire media-expert elite hastily stopped being outraged about the Panama Papers and moved on to their next object of outrage – the volunteer citizen patrols along the border. Essentially, the rational and calm debate on the important topics related to the files …

Vasil Haralampiev* On April 14, 2016, I attended the meeting of the Health Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. The agenda was entirely dedicated to the draft amendments to the Law on the Control of Narcotic Drugs and Percussives, which were to be voted on in the second reading in the committee. Sitting next to me was Kaloyan Yankov, a 50-year-old patient …

— Well, grandfather hadji, how do you see it, eh? A miracle, isn't it? A grand thing? — Hmm… — muttered hadji Peter, glanced at him and said: — Three kilos of pyroxylin is the mother of it! Put it in the foundation, light the wick and there won't be a stone left on a stone! — That's right, amchi kaak! …

Lately, I have been increasingly encountering an interesting phenomenon – an awful lot of smart and thoughtful people, reflecting and commenting on global problems, invariably blame freedom. Starting from offshore zones and banks, through Uber and Airbnb, and ending with personal consumer choice and the management of private property, the people in question are always …

April is already a traditional time for scandals related to offshore finance and tax evasion to erupt. Exactly three years ago, we were talking again about leaked information from a consulting firm in the so-called "Offshore Leaks" affair, where incriminating documents came from the British Virgin Islands instead of Panama. Back then, it was about …