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 …

Author: Nikolay Nenovski Professor at Jules Verne University, France Former member of the BNB Governing Board The material was written on October 30, 2019. Due to the limitations of the text size, I will formulate my views as theses. On the monetary policy of the ECB and in general on the monetary policy of the leading central banks I believe (and …

Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk Translation: Marina Zaharieva The Deformation of the Capital Structure – a Volcano with a Wooden Lid (read the first part here) The main problem of the world economy since the late 2010s and early 2020s is the deformation of the capital structure. This problem is clearly, in detail and well-foundedly described by the Austrian …

Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk Translation: Marina Zaharieva The world economy is synchronously falling into the zone of another powerful turbulence. This is no coincidence, given all the efforts of central banks and governments. It is they who take care of the synchronization in the inflation of market bubbles of various assets and resources. It is they who succumb to lobbying …

Author: Georgi Georgiev The topic of the forcible seizure of property in the form of various taxes and levies is key to libertarianism (“taxes are theft”). If we take into account the skeptical attitude towards the way tax revenues are spent by most modern Bulgarians and the actions aimed at avoiding taxation, then the majority …

To Mr. Krasen Kralev, To Mr. Borislav Mihaylov, To prime ministers, popes, patriarchs, To media, journalists, oligarchs, To the proud, sleeping Bulgarian people. After an evening like this one on Monday, words come more difficult than sleep. Once again we have seen how sport can reflect the state of an entire country. Is it …

Author: Rashid Rashid I remember 2006, when I was a third-year student majoring in Ecology and Environmental Protection at the Forestry University, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was shown in our auditorium. I was under the influence of the film for several days. I was completely convinced that global warming was the thing I had been waiting to fight all my life.

Author: Natali Hristova Why are we even bothering with the Belene NPP when we can neither finance it nor need the electricity? Moreover, it is doubtful to what extent the EU will allow it, especially considering the use of old Russian technology in a seismic region and with a lack of diversification in the particularly important sector of …

Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk, economist and politician from Belarus, president of the Scientific Research Mises Center. (The text is Romanchuk's recommendation for tax reform in Ukraine) The world is rapidly developing in the direction of breakthrough technologies of the IV industrial revolution. Since the end of 2010, communication between people has been fundamentally different from before …

Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk, economist and politician from Belarus, president of the Scientific Research Mises Center Libertarianism is a worldview formally unknown to the majority, and Ukraine is no exception. People rarely study right-wing political philosophy in depth. Even intellectuals give contradictory, often completely opposite definitions of the term “freedom”. Namely, freedom is …