Macroeconomic Monitor
Начало / 2018 / юли

2018.07

Ep. 24: On Trump's Foreign Policy with Nikola Filipov and Arkadi Sharkov

Links: The US-China Trade War For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the podcast audio by clicking the “Download” button in the player above. Don’t forget to like and share on Facebook and write a comment with your opinion and/or criticism about this episode! This way you help us to …

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Ideas for Reforming the Left: Part I

A return to the original left-worker ideas would make him a much more serious opponent of the right. The left around the world is in a state of amok. Its hypocritical double standards towards minorities, on the one hand, and the indigenous population, on the other, have led to its total discredit in the eyes of the ordinary voter, who still considers himself to be a radical …

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What does the interest rate tell us?

According to mainstream economics, the central bank is the key factor in determining the level of interest rates. By setting short-term interest rates and based on expectations about the future course of its interest rate policy, it influences the entire structure of interest rates. It follows that economic players have almost no …

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Is there a need for pension reform?

Pension funds have achieved nearly 4.5% profitability in recent years, and the government plans to oblige insurers under the voluntary pillar to provide forecasts for future pensions. Is there light at the end of the tunnel and what kind of pensions will we receive in 5, 10 or 20 years? These are the topics that our editor-in-chief Georgi …

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The valsartan drama turned out to be a storm in a teacup

A few weeks ago, the scandal with the "carcinogenic valsartan" erupted, which quickly swept the media and created the prerequisites for numerous speculations about the quality of medications from this group. We at EKIP reacted quickly by publishing an article by M.A. Pharm. Dimitar Galabov, who clearly explained the problem, emphasizing that there is no need to panic. What a …

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Libertarian approach to immigration

approach to immigration

The European migrant crisis that began in 2015 has opened an expected front for a new cultural and political war within the Old Continent. The destructive military interventions of the US and its allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the “invitation to refugees” issued by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the internal tensions in the richer members of the Union coming …

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Why does big business inevitably turn left?

Everything is shaped by the business plan of the big guys... We all remember the case of the fired Google employee who dared to state basic biological differences between men and women and how they translate into socio-behavioral differences. This act of his did not please his superiors, who did not want to …

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Ep. 23: Ecologist Rashid Rashid on "Vision for Sofia" and global climate change

04:25 - The "Vision for Sofia" project and the problems of the capital 48:11 - Global climate change Links Rothbard on ecology: Part 1, part 2 "Vision for Sofia" The Mises Institute on global climate change For greater convenience, we recommend downloading the audio of the podcast by clicking on the "Download" button in ...

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Did Domuschievi and Peevski buy remission of privatization obligations?

Over the past week, a stormy scandal has erupted in the media over the amendments to the Law on Privatization and Post-Privatization Control proposed by the Ataka party and supported by GERB and VMRO. Accusations have poured in from the media that the proposed amendments are completely "lobbying" aimed at protecting the financial interests of the Domuschievi brothers and Delyan Peevski in particular. The most …

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Why won't educational qualifications fix democracy?

educational qualification

The educated can also sell their votes Recently, the idea of limiting the right to vote in the democratic process based on a minimum level of education has been developing in the Bulgarian public space. The idea is to interrupt the vicious practice of buying and selling votes before elections, especially with regard to one of the minorities …

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