Economic and fiscal policy

| Full text of the analysis | In Bulgaria, there is often talk about the lagging behind of small municipalities and districts compared to large ones, but unfortunately never with enough specificity and clarity. While everyone is aware that there are problems in small districts and municipalities, very little is known about what they are exactly and …

Author: Mark Thornton, Mises.org We are constantly told that unprecedented levels of money printing by the Federal Reserve and other central banks are necessary to stimulate the economy, create jobs, and generate economic growth. The truth is, this is a scheme to covertly steal purchasing power…

By Jeff Deist, Mises.org Bloomberg Terminal, the financial software used by countless analysts and traders around the world, has a problem: its system can’t price bonds that use negative interest rates. The programmers never even considered such a situation possible, so they didn’t …

Media appearances in August covered the presentation of our new study against the restriction of cash payments, healthcare, is a new economic recession coming, and the accuracy of drug tests used by the traffic police. The latest economic analysis of the EKIP - "Regulations on cash payments and their effects" presents evidence that ...

Two years after the last attempt to remove the cap on cash payments, it is time to raise the topic again. But this time, not to remove it, but to increase it, or better yet, to remove it completely. The Expert Club for Economics and Politics recently published a report, …

| Full text of the analysis | A number of proven patterns in economic science indicate that restricting cash payments would not have a significant effect on the size of the shadow economy. The latest report by the European Commission on the effectiveness of restrictions on cash payments in the European Union unequivocally confirms that …

When the idea of the Eurozone was actively promoted in the 1980s and 1990s, the main advantage of the future monetary union was the expected "convergence" or, in other words, the rapprochement that it would bring about between the different member states. The idea is that, through the shared currency, the economies of the different member states would …

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 …

In the midst of summer, our experts were sought after by the media on topics such as: healthcare, taxes and the tax system, pension system reform, stress tests of banks in the country. The month was marked by the extremely high activity of our health economist Arkadi Sharkov in the media space. In the program "Direct" on BulgariaOnAir television, …

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 …