The COVID-19 epidemic in Bulgaria is developing. Speculation about whether it is in its beginning, middle and end should be left aside, as the main goal at the moment should be to minimize the risk of the widespread spread of the virus. Even now, predictions about its development are …

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English economist whose name is associated with an influential theory. He argued that if there are no limitations on resources, population increases in geometric progression. The doubling period is 25 years. Over the same period, food supplies increase in arithmetic progression. This results in a severe …

The administration's inaction is stifling even that which could work... Everyone is discussing the taxpayers' money, which the government these days said it would return to some of them after collecting it from everyone. Both the discussion and the government's actions are normal - within some framework of public decency. No...

At a special counter-briefing on Sunday, Prime Minister Borissov, provoked by President Radev's statements and veto on the state of emergency law, commented on a range of topics of key importance beyond the pandemic that has hit the world. He made a kind of joke at opponents of joining the eurozone and defenders of the currency board, telling us …

In recent days, Bulgarian politicians have, with surprising consensus, declared open war on the invisible enemy Covid-19. Measures have been and are being taken that are akin to martial law. Forgotten practices such as curfews, total control over behavior, control over freedom of speech, restrictions disproportionate to the danger, and attacks on private …

Crises expose the bones of reality, dispel the fog of political formulas and incantations. We usually spend the dramatic moments that have come into the public spotlight, separated from the real events in a fabricated version of the true facts. Effigies smeared with lipstick and adorned with sequins, we wage our ritual battles in front of the media cameras, …

In the new special episode of "The Intelligent Investor" we comment on what has happened in the last few weeks since the coronavirus pandemic escalated worldwide. How badly will different economies, sectors and banking systems be hit? What will happen to government debt, especially in the member states of the European Union? Will there be a new …

Author: Matthew Tanous, disinthrallment.com By now, everyone is painfully familiar with the Covid-19 pandemic that is ravaging the world. Strict travel restrictions are being imposed around the world, people are being tested en masse, everyone is preparing or already imposing serious quarantines, and ordinary people are worried about job security …

After the purely health measures aimed at protecting the health of Bulgarian citizens in the current Covid-19 pandemic, the next package of measures that it will have to take are purely financial. The pandemic is causing huge economic damage, with Europe being the most affected, given the massive spread of the virus in some of the most fragile …

Over the past few years, a special fetish for limiting the amount of construction has begun to form among the capital's residents. In a panic about the "overdevelopment" of the city's squares, many people began to demand that the municipality impose more restrictive regulations on construction in Sofia and to vote for all local political candidates, ...