Macroeconomic Monitor
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2020

2. About Chalga, Education and Something Else (with Zhoro Vuldzhev and Lacho Tomov)

Guests in the second episode of the new edition of "60 Minutes of Freedom!" are the stars of the debate "The Scythe: Left or Right" organized by the Bulgarian Libertarian Society in December - Georgi Vuldjev and Lachezar Tomov! Lache is a mathematician and a lecturer at the National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures (NGDEK) and NBU, and Georgi …

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Politicization of healthcare

The politicization of healthcare is already a fact – predicted, expected and dangerous. Some argue that this is for the good, that the health of the nation is too important a segment to be left to professionals, the healthcare industry or the individual. They also say that its management is an extremely important function of the current political …

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Eagle, cancer and pike of Bulgarian healthcare

IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: The article was originally published on the website of the newspaper "SEGA". As a result of DEliberate semantic editing, corrections were made to the text WITHOUT being coordinated with the author. Therefore, we are now publishing the original of the article. We believe that the editorial staff of the newspaper "SEGA" owes the necessary apology for the semantic changes that ...

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State-wide Water and Sewerage or how to make a local water crisis national

I'll say it bluntly. The creation of a common, centralized state water supply holding company that would unite all water supply companies across the country is phenomenally stupid. The idea that such a holding company could prevent the emergence of more problems like the one with the water supply in Pernik is absurd. The creation of such a holding company betrays either a misunderstanding of the problem...

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Printing more money cannot create more growth

Author: Frank Shostak, Mises.org The idea that more money can boost the economy is based on the belief that money has a stimulatory effect by increasing aggregate spending. More money in people’s pockets means they can spend more, and the rest follows from that. Money, in this sense, is a means …

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1. What American legalization looks like from the first person (Dimitar Karagegov)

"60 Minutes of Freedom!" is back with a new host - not just anyone, but the chairman of the Bulgarian Libertarian Society and the Expert Club for Economics and Politics himself! From now on, Stoyan Panchev will select and interview the guests in our titular podcast. The technical team behind the podcast has also been changed, so please …

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The water crisis in Pernik as another Cirque de Borisov

Today, all media outlets exploded with the news that the leader of the Women GERB party and former regional governor of Pernik, Irena Sokolova, was arrested during a raid by the prosecutor's office in connection with the water crisis in the city. Meanwhile, the Minister of Environment and Water, Neno Dimov, was also detained after special forces …

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The expansion of the green zone in Sofia - issues from a public discussion

Author: Momchil Yakimov On December 16, 2019, I attended the public discussion on expanding the green parking area in the Ivan Vazov residential area, Triaditsa district. At the same time, the media was discussing the increase in vehicle tax in Sofia by an average of 20 leva per car, which was later voted on …

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Principles are not pasta: Jock, Bonev and the right-wing yellow vests

The yellow-paved ideological bubble is jumping through the phases of change significantly faster than the rest of the country. We can explain this with a simple interpretation of Maslow's pyramid, in which materially satisfied millennials have climbed much higher than village grandmothers. Even more so with open access to waves of new information about …

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