Macroeconomic Monitor
Начало / 2018 (страница 9)

2018

No, Angela, the EU doesn't have to have a price tag

There is no physical law that says free trade necessarily comes with unlimited immigration. “We will not let Britain pick the raisins from the EU cake as it pleases during the Brexit negotiations. Britain cannot enjoy the benefits of membership without bearing some of its costs.” The German …

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On public spending and business cycles

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Ep. 28: The EU's Attempts to Regulate the Internet with Attorney Ana Lazarova

Links: Contact your MEP Digital Republic: Facebook Official website 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! …

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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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The West owes its wealth to parliamentarism, not monarchy

In order for a nation to become rich, its entire population must be emancipated, not just the aristocracy. Monarchism received a new impetus among libertarian and conservative circles after the monumental work “Democracy – The God Who Failed” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. In it, the author criticizes the so-called “public ownership of the state”, expressed in parliamentary democracy …

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