Economy

The bursting of the Bitcoin bubble will happen when the global economic situation begins to deteriorate. This was commented by the editor-in-chief of the Expert Club for Economics and Politics (EKIP) Georgi Vuldzhev on the “Investbook” show with host Dimitar Vuchev. “It is difficult to predict when this will happen, but considering that central banks are already tightening their …

In connection with the deepening financial instability of the healthcare sector in Bulgaria, the experts from the EKIP have found a solution to the problem of the continuous increase in the costs of medicines of the NHIF. The analysis used data from the drug group of sartans (medicinal products for the treatment of arterial hypertension) for the period 2005-2016. …

|Full text of the analysis| Summary and conclusions from the analysis of the sartan group: The results of this study confirm the conclusions of previous analyses, such as the World Bank's 2015 analysis, as well as good practices from EU countries, and quantify the positive effects of implementing a progeneric policy within the framework of …

Mark Spitznagel, Mises.org With each new peak in the price of Bitcoin, claims that it will become the best store of value of our time – the new gold – become more and more frequent. However, we cannot ignore the fact that it is essentially a speculative investment …

Author: Kaloyan Staykov They say that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. This phrase seems like a very accurate analogy to the moratorium imposed on the financing of new drugs and new medical activities by the National Health Insurance Fund in 2018. The reason for the restrictions is the inability of the authorities to limit the steep increase in health insurance costs in …

Modern economists use a range of statistical methods, ranging from extremely complex ones to simple displays of historical data. It is generally accepted that through statistical correlation, historical data can be transformed into useful information, which in turn can serve as a basis for assessing the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, this …

Richard Rahn, The Washington Times The growth of former communist countries is the envy of the world. Once again, there is more evidence that economic freedoms lead to success. Many of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have made enormous economic progress since they became …

Author: Kaloyan Staykov After the presentation on Thursday of the summary of the Final Report on the possibility of realizing the assets of the Belene NPP at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the news was that the project is viable, and the focus was on the price of electricity at which this would be possible. However, these are the least important questions, as they depend on …

Our editor-in-chief Georgi Vuldzhev this week was a guest on the show "Resonance" on Eurocom TV with host Vasko Mavrikov. The topic of conversation between the two was another restriction on cash payments, Budget 2018 and the state of the pension system. Regarding the lowering of the threshold for cash payments adopted at first reading …

If you have been following the media in recent days, you have no way of not having come across the extremely high-profile story surrounding the latest ruling of the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC). A ruling that represents a very dangerous precedent that, instead of "protecting" competition, actually tramples on it and threatens the interests of consumers. Let's briefly discuss what ...