Macroeconomic Monitor
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2016

Venezuela has made it impossible to grow businesses (and illegal to close them)

Rachel Cunliffe Businesses in Venezuela have a problem. In fact, almost everyone in Venezuela has multiple problems. Starvation, for example. Shortages of basic goods. Understaffed, understaffed hospitals and a lack of medicine. A corrupt and increasingly militarized government determined to protect the current president, Nicolas Maduro, at all costs. But businesses, especially factories, are …

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Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics - Part Two

Chapter I, Part 2* You can read the first part HERE Life is a series of ups and downs In economic theory, there are similar analogous reversals - the constant alternation of a strong economic boom and an almost as long economic downturn. There are different opinions, theoretical and practical explanations for the emergence of business cycles. According to the "mainstream" ...

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Criticism of veganism from an insider

When I decided to change my eating habits in late fall 2014, I was worried about how my family, friends, and loved ones would react. I was afraid of the amount of arguments I would have to have to defend my conscious choice not to eat meat. What I expected happened, but …

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Nationalists vs. Federalists – the False Clash

The events surrounding and especially after Brexit have once again brought to the forefront the fundamental debate about what the right "recipe" for the European Union is – is a Europe of nation states better than a united and centralized Europe? On one side of this argument stand the Eurosceptic nationalist movements of the Old Continent – UKIP, …

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A society without money

The banknotes and coins in circulation are what most people think of money as. In fact, they represent a very small fraction of all the money in the economy, depending on how you define it. Most of your money isn't in the family safe or hidden under the mattress. …

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Shared travel – a lesson in capitalism and snobbery

It never even crossed my mind that I would have to speak out publicly on this topic, or even parade on television, defending the obvious. But alas, I now know that nothing, absolutely nothing, can surprise me in Bulgarian managerial thought. The chronology of events Once upon a time...

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