What happens when a country has a limited public resource for healthcare that has no clear owner? Quite simply – it is distributed according to the needs of certain market players, and the entire system starts bidding for a piece of it. What happens? This is also the case with …

 In the first official episode of "60 Minutes Freedom", the founder of the Bulgarian Libertarian Society and EKIP Stoyan Panchev joins Georgi Vuldjev and Kaloyan Pravov to discuss the following topics: 0:55 – Lukovmarch and Antifa: Should marches like Lukovmarch (and counter-marchies like those of Antifa) be banned? How many …

There comes a time in every person's life when he or she must decide for themselves which values will be the compass by which they will choose their direction of movement. Inevitably, this also applies to larger organisms, and here let my analogy abruptly shift to companies and countries. Lately, many different …

 Food prices in Bulgaria are approaching the average European level, Violeta Ivanova from the Confederation of Bulgarian Trade Unions (CITUB) commented in the studio of “Hello, Bulgaria”. “Our food products reach 71% of the average European price levels, and some of them, such as vegetable oils, exceed the average European levels by about 9%. The prices of milk and dairy products …

Stock markets have been a hot topic in the media space for the past few weeks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its biggest one-day drop since 2008 at the start of the month, falling 5.2% to 24,190.90 points. The S&P 500 also ended the first week of February down 5.2%, while the Nasdaq closed the week down 5.1% …

Having examined the global demand profile for gold and silver in the first part of this series comparing gold and silver as investment alternatives, let us now turn our attention to the price dynamics of the two metals. By comparative analysis of trends in the price movements of gold and …

Dear readers, We present to your attention the pilot episode of the new EKIP podcast - "60 Minutes of Freedom", featuring our editor-in-chief Georgi Vuldzhev and political expert Kaloyan Pravov. Within the framework of this podcast, we will try to present our reading and perspective on current political topics from …

Bulgarian economic history cannot provide a universally valid answer to this question, but it can suggest in which direction to look. Therefore, it is worth paying a little attention to some of the supposedly “generally accepted” truths about Bulgaria’s economic past. Among them, one can point out the almost axiomatic statement that the economic …

Highlights: - Construction production falls in December, but it is still early to talk about a reversal of the strong upward trend in the sector - Inflation also slows, both in consumer and manufactured goods, but remains high - Lending accelerates slightly, with housing lending growing at the fastest pace towards …

Author: Steve Hanke, Forbes.com After Bulgaria escaped communism in 1990, Bulgarians experienced several hardships. The economy collapsed, there were bankruptcies, and this Balkan paradise experienced hyperinflation, reaching a staggering 242% in February 1997. Yes, on a monthly basis. Anticipating many of the problems that follow currency devaluation, I became …