As is well known, as long as there is someone reading: 1. Taxes are on average 50% of the income of an individual or household, everyone can check the individual picture at kolkodavam.bg; 2. There is money for airplanes and everything else, but there are also irrational budget expenditures of 0.5-1% of GDP...

Author: Georgi Georgiev History of the development of the right to freedom of expression, the right to free speech and free press and media. The article is divided into several main sections and follows a chronological order of presentation, namely: Definition of Freedom of Speech and Press and legal framework Freedom of speech and …

Author: Georgi Angelov, Senior Economist, Open Society Institute In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, electric cars were preferred – they were quieter and more comfortable, and they also did not require a crank and manual start, like internal combustion engines. Over time, however, petrol cars overcame these problems: the electric starter …

Author: Kaloyan Staykov In mid-August, the government published for public discussion warmed-up proposals for reform of the drug policy, with the focus on improving access to medicinal products in the country. The problem with access arises mainly for two reasons: parallel export[1] – it is envisaged to create a restrictive list of medicines whose export can be …

Author: Simona Zlatkova The purpose of this article is to analyze the publication “Indirect Damages” (ed.), published in the Economist magazine in July last year, and by building a comparison with the information provided by the US Chamber of Commerce a few months later, to build an argumentative structure that allows everyone to give their own answer to the ongoing …

By John McDermott, MEL Magazine A few weeks ago, researchers at the University of Washington published a new study that found Seattle’s attempts to improve the economic prospects of the city’s working class have backfired. Seattle is one of many U.S. cities that are gradually raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour in …

Brittany Hunter, Foundation for Economic Education Power is intoxicating. It can corrupt even the most principled of people, destroy entire civilizations, and bring long-standing regimes to their knees. The moment one person is consumed by the thirst for power, others are nothing to them…

Author: Georgi Angelov At the end of April, Donald Trump completed his first 100 days as US president. His election in November already caused polarized reactions. Trump's supporters and his team claimed that the new president would radically change the way Washington works and greatly accelerate the economy. His opponents …

Author: Yavor Ganchev Most people will answer in the affirmative, and some will also quote Art. 53(2) of the Constitution: "School education up to the age of 16 is compulsory" Most people do not even notice that it is not about education, but about "school education". This is so because for most people - and with ...

Author: Mariola Yankova The question of whether animals have rights and whether this fact does not make us humans criminals has never been more relevant. Activists periodically appear both in Bulgaria and in other Western countries and the USA, who use the rhetoric of rights to urge us to stop consuming …