This Friday (29.06) representatives of the GERB parliamentary group, led by Menda Stoyanova (who is also the chairwoman of the Budget and Finance Committee) submitted a bill to unify the excise tax on sticks for the newly emerged IQOS product for "smokeless smoking" and conventional cigarettes. The measure is surprising because it goes against …

The joint participation of state and private capital in economic initiatives has long been a familiar practice. The reasons and conditions under which it is implemented are different. Historical experience in Bulgaria shows that the results of such "cooperation" are questionable. However, this is not all. In fact, cooperation degenerates into mutual deception between private ...

In recent weeks, the main topics on which the EKIP made a number of appearances in the media were related to Bulgaria's potential entry into the Eurozone, the proposed bans on the advertising and distribution of lottery games, and the "Freedom for Hemp" protest march on the need to decriminalize marijuana in the country. Dimitar Karagegov, as the organizer of …

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Uncontrollably growing budget for medicines Over the past few years, the growth in the cost of medicines paid by the NHIF has been between 15-20% on an annual basis. In 2018, the costs reached 1 billion, and the primary reaction of the institutions was the so-called limitation of payment for innovative medicines, entitled "moratorium", which fell ...

Ayn Rand Translated from: "Philosophy: Who Needs It" In my publication “The Missing Link”, I discussed the anti-ideal mentality and its social (tribal) manifestations. All tribally minded people are anti-ideal to varying degrees, but not all people who are anti-ideal are tribally minded. Some are lone wolves (emphasizing the most predatory characteristics of …

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Authors: Dimitar Karagegov, Georgi Vuldjev They say that for every big lie you need accomplices. What happens when your accomplices are an entire neighborhood of 120,000 This is the story of the Mladost District – “green”, “people’s”, “supra-partisan”, “overdeveloped” and seriously misled. It can’t be otherwise when everything stems from a lie…

| Full text of the analysis | In recent months, the issue of the regulation of the gambling sector in Bulgaria, and more specifically lottery games, has emerged as an unexpectedly topical and hot topic in the public sphere. The specific reason for the rise of this topic were the proposals of the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Bulgarian National Federation of Gambling Associations, Valeri Simeonov, for the full …

00:50 - What topics will we discuss in this episode? 04:58 - How did the various virtual investments of the EKIP Virtual Pension Fund perform in May? 16:50 - Answers to feedback and questions we received after the previous episode of the podcast 20:00 - What is "compound interest" and how through reinvestment …