Economy

This text was originally published in the collection "2020: Inside and Beyond" It was already clear in March that 2020 would not be easy for the government of Boyko Borisov. A state of emergency was declared just days after the first registered case of COVID-19. This was followed by a collapse in economic activity, a spike in unemployment and …

This text was originally published in the collection "2020: Inside and Beyond" Every intricate story has to start somewhere. In this one about the super-massive printing of money, that moment is in 2008, and the starting point is the United States. To get to the answer to the question of why central banks are printing more today …

Do you remember when "smart heads" were roaming the television studios six months ago to comfort us? They were talking about how the crisis may be deep, but it will be short? How we will already be in recovery by the fall? How in 2021 we will fully recover to the levels of economic activity of 2019? How the trajectory of …

Six years ago, on a pre-holiday December evening, hundreds of Bulgarian citizens protested in the center of Sofia against the nationalization of the second pillar of the pension system. A group of enthusiasts organized this happening under the slogan "Hands off pensions" to protect the private, real savings of every working citizen of ours. By …

When it rains heavily, the first thing that emerges from clogged manholes is mud. In political terms, it can be said that populism is at its peak precisely in the years of severe economic and health crisis that we are in. Changes are inevitably coming, and they are of key importance. What will be the course of …

The following material is a translation of an article published on August 1, 1981 with the original title "What Causes Wealth?" by Roger Ream. The subtitles and formatting are by the translator. The original article can be found on the FEE website. The current translation is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license …

The second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic and the enormous difficulties of the Bulgarian healthcare system in dealing with it have brought to public attention issues surrounding the functioning of healthcare, which were already making their way to the forefront of important public topics. One of these issues is related to the size, training and remuneration of the medical …

Last week, the Association of Language Centers in Bulgaria joined the growing number of professional associations that asked the government to provide tax breaks due to difficulties related to the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting economic crisis. As expected, given the existing problems with face-to-face learning in classrooms. Schools are losing clients from …

For 2021, an increase in the budget of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) by approximately BGN 312 million is planned. Unlike the previous year, this time it is nominal - within 7.2%, for comparison in 2019 - 2020 it was 9.1%. The main items on which these …

"I agree that it's absurd, but what can I do? The RZI gives us some lists and we break our legs going from house to house. I'm writing to you that you're not here, because you're not here," the policeman tells me on the phone. He's standing in front of my apartment door, but I'm not in …