Economy

The February US employment report was released about two weeks ago. According to the data, unemployment remains at 8.3%, and new jobs created in the second month of 2012 are 227,000. For comparison, in January, US statistics show a drop in the unemployment rate from 8.5% …

Още по време на Тройната коалиция политическата класа стигна до мълчаливо споразумение -  таванът върху  държавното преразпределение да бъде поставен на 40% от БВП.  На свой ред Симеон Дянков излезе с множество подобни идеи – залагане на 38% граница на държавните разходи в Конституцията, изискване за референдум при увеличение на …

Докато приоритетно се отразяват подготовките и резултатите от изборите в Русия и САЩ, доста по-близо ще се състоят не по-малко любопитни политически надпревари, които ни засягат пряко. От следващия избор на Гърция до голяма степен зависи изходът от дълговата криза в страната. Има две крайно различаващи се прогнози – избиране …

At one time or another, each of us has encountered the state administration. When mentioning the phrase in question, various associations can arise. However, no matter how diverse they are, hardly anyone can call public sector officials “tech gurus”. In most cases, it is about …

On February 29 this year, the European Central Bank (ECB) implemented its second liquidity injection of low-interest three-year loans (the so-called Long Term Refinancing Operations (LTRO)) for the banking system in the euro area. The amount of loans provided was 529 billion euros and over 800 credit institutions benefited from it. In the first …

Last week, among the leading news in the financial markets was the annual address by American investment magnate Warren Buffett to the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway.

The scandal surrounding the anti-immigrant Dutch website has subsided, leaving only a vague impression in the public sphere of a general resentment of Europeans against the xenophobic policies of the nationalist party. This resentment, unfortunately, was not the result of a consensus among Western governments in defense of Eastern Europeans and in condemnation of xenophobia (hatred of foreigners). Sharp …

Геополитическият провал на Съединените щати в Ирак и Афганистан накара много теоретици по международна политика да заговорят за залеза на Pax Americana. Техните аргументи не са нови, а появата им e предсказуема. По същия начин съветският сателит „Спутник” предизвиква паника сред американските стратези в началото на 60-те години на миналия …

Expert Club for Economics and Politics | February 2012 In the fifth edition of the monthly newsletter of EKIP you can find: ACTA should be stopped at the Bulgarian border Recovery or recession? (Methodi Tsanov) Freer school education (Stoyan Panchev) Oil woes* (Yavor Aleksiev) Interview with the rector (Momchil Elenkov) A new chance in …

The stock market in a country is a leading indicator of the state of its economy. When stock market indices measuring stock prices start to rise, it is not long before the economy follows suit. The theory states that stock prices reflect future expectations about the state of a company and …