Yesterday the government announced its intention to increase the salary levels in the state administration by 10%. The measure is expected to come into effect from January 1, 2019, and according to initial estimates it will cost all of us taxpayers between 800 million and 1.1 billion leva. This is certainly great news…
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Ep. 29: Weekly Review and Answers to Patreon Questions
Links: Tuesday (04.09) Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday (10.09) 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! So …
More »What is worth knowing about Bulgarian socialism II: The economy
The economic bankruptcy of socialism has long been convincingly proven by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. In the absence of private ownership of the means of production, there is no market, and without a market, money prices cannot be formed. Without prices, rational production, construction, etc. cannot be organized. Separately …
More »How and why is the EU on the verge of destroying Internet freedom?
You may or may not have heard, but the European Union is trying for the second time this year to pass a regulation that fundamentally threatens freedom on the Internet. It is the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which updates the current legislation of the union in the field of …
More »Will Argentina, Turkey and Indonesia bring down the Fed's house of cards?
Emerging Market Pain May Be a Sign of Future U.S. Trouble Emerging markets are on fire. In the past week, Turkey’s currency crisis has been joined by similar financial conflagrations in Argentina and Indonesia. The central bank of the Gauchos raised its key interest rate to 60% (the world’s highest) from 45%, after …
More »Conventional vs. new media
For a long time, including in Bulgaria, there has been a lot of talk about the effect of social networks on our society. This modern Gutenberg revolution is fundamentally changing every aspect of our existence, opening up new horizons and creating new problems. Cases such as the sudden and coordinated deletion of Infowars (a media outlet with millions of users) from almost …
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More »Ep. 6: How to invest in the marijuana market and the Olympic scandal
0:35 - Presentation of the episode's topics 02:30 - Feedback from our listeners 09:50 - How to take advantage of the boom in the marijuana market in the West? What are the investment opportunities and what are the risks? 31:50 - The "Olympic" case - what exactly happened to the Cypriot insurer? Who is responsible ...
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