Today (18.07) is a significant date in the Bulgarian calendar. On this day, in 1837, the greatest Bulgarian hero and revolutionary was born – Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, better known by the famous nickname Vasil "Levski". Also known as the Apostle of Freedom, Levski is the most important Bulgarian revolutionary. His merits as an organizer of the revolutionary movement …

From Helsinki with… love? The meeting between Trump and Putin in Helsinki was highly anticipated after the sparks that flew between the US president and the leaders of NATO countries last week. The focus was on what tone Trump would set for Russian-American relations amid his conflicts with his allies in …

The emergence and spread of socialism, national socialism and fascism is not simply the result of an unfavorable combination of circumstances. These ideologies and their mutations in the conditions of various crises have the dangerous charm of convincing part of the masses of their rightness. In addition to being inhumane, they are also anti-market. When after September 1944 the Bulgarian …

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Author: Georgi Georgiev And why exactly for this reason should they be deprived of the right to dispose of them? The topic of this post inspired me to read the book by Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein: “The State in the Third Millennium” which I recommend to anyone interested in …

On 05.07.2018, EMA – the European Medicines Agency, issued a statement on the so-called “precautionary recall” of valsartan-containing products due to a received signal for a detected adulteration in the raw substance, namely NDMA – N-nitrosodimethylamine. The signal was submitted by the manufacturing company, namely the China-based “Zhejiang Huahai …

Links: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory over Joseph Crowley for the New York House of Representatives seat Ocasio-Cortez's biography and political positions Media reactions: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html http://www.businessinsider.com/ocasio-cortez-gets-the-economics-of-budget-deficits-job-creation-2018-7 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-gop-republicans-libraries-policies-new-york-trump-twitter-a8434966.html The problems at the Democratic conference The position of the British government after the meeting at Checkers Disagreements in Theresa May's cabinet For more …

Author: Stefan Stoyanov It is widely believed that Bulgaria has the lowest taxes in the European Union. This perception is formed by comparing the rates, especially of Corporate Tax and Income Tax, with the corresponding rates in countries such as Germany or Denmark. But neither of these countries are representative of the entire European Union, …

The big economic problem the world faces is linguistic semantics. The word “regulation” is now understood to mean “government regulation.” We are unaware of the alternative: consumer regulation. This is a problem because we accept so much government intervention, when in fact we would be better off without it. We demand some kind of regulation with …

01:14 - What will we discuss in this episode? 06:27 - Answers to questions and criticisms we received after the last episode 16:49 - Investment and financial news from Bulgaria - Gradus IPO - the particular specificity of the mortgage market in Bulgaria 37:45 - Macro and Markets - international financial …