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 …
More »Types of market structures and a historical overview of the concept of competition
This article will be devoted to the market structures created by the neoclassical mainstream school. A retrospective of the concept of competition from the classical economists onwards will be made, and thus it will be possible to answer the question of why and how the models of perfect and imperfect competition were created. First, what is a market? Every …
More »The global financial and economic crisis of 2008 through the eyes of the Austrian School of Economics
Author: Kristiyan Korelov It has been more than a decade since one of the largest stock market panics in the United States occurred. Credit markets had completely stopped functioning (Gorton, 2008), and the situation was very similar to that of the panic of 1907, when banks were in massive need of liquidity and a huge part of …
More »15. How to invest in gold and silver? (with guest Dimo Stefanov)
Dear listeners, in the new episode of "The Intelligent Investor" our guest is Dimo Stefanov, Chief Dealer at Tavex Gold & Exchange, which are the largest (and in our opinion the best) gold and silver dealers in Bulgaria. Dimo is the best gold and silver investing expert we know, so his advice …
More »Capitalism doesn't cause consumerism – the state does
Original article: Ryan McMaken, mises.org The condemnation of consumerism is ubiquitous in modern media and popular culture. Anyone who has seen “A Charlie Brown Christmas” from 1965 knows about this struggle. Every time we see Charlie Brown opt for the “authentic” Christmas – buying himself a small Christmas tree, which is natural, …
More »10 years after Lehman Brothers, the bill for the crisis is still unpaid
The world put out the fire with debt that will sooner or later have to be paid. On September 15, 2008, the United States woke up to the bankruptcy of its fourth largest investment bank, Lehman Brothers. With assets of $639 billion (at least on the balance sheet) and $619 billion in debt, it was the largest bankruptcy …
More »How did the crisis in Turkey come about?
The factors that lead to the current crisis in Turkey are at a fundamental level two. The huge balance of payments deficit and high levels of price inflation, especially since 2012. In turn, these two factors are a direct result of the fiscal and monetary policies that Turkey has chosen to follow over the last …
More »"The Broken Window" - the Most Common Economic Fallacy
It is often observed that incompetent economists are better at spreading their errors among the public than competent economists are at spreading the truth. The reason for this is that bad economists actually introduce people to half-truths. They only talk about the short-term effects that a given policy would have on a specific group of people. To solve this problem …
More »What is economic value? - response to Evgeny Dainov
Evgeni Dainov, one of the most famous public intellectuals in Bulgaria, published an article a few days ago about the "economists". A text in which he criticizes at length what he describes as the "economic" way of thinking. As someone who considers himself an economist, I was of course intrigued, but unfortunately I was left extremely disappointed...
More »Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: The Austrian Economist Who Debunked Marx
Some time ago we decided to translate the wiki page of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, one of the founders of the Austrian School of Economics. We were unpleasantly surprised that the Bulgarian translation was not approved, but then again, libertarians are people who do not pride themselves on recognizing foreign authorities (even Wikipedia), so …
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