During the 2016 US presidential race, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders emerged as advocates of protectionism and expressed clear support for expanding tariffs and other trade barriers imposed on imports, with both arguing that free trade policies lead to job losses...
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“In economics, every action, custom, institution, or law, produces not just one result, but a series of consequences. Of all of them, only one consequence is immediate; it appears simultaneously with the cause (and the action); it is visible. The other consequences appear later; they are invisible; we are lucky if we can foresee them.” …
More »12 recommendations from American students for their new president
We are publishing 12 recommendations for the new US president less than a month before his inauguration. They were sent to us specifically by the students of Professor Alexander Tokarev at Northwood University in Michigan, USA. Like Reagan, Trump has chosen crappy predecessors. With this clever move, he has significantly facilitated the task of …
More »Slavi Trifonov is dangerously clever with the Prosecutor General
Martin Nikolaev In recent days, you have surely noticed the Facebook buzz surrounding Slavi Trifonov's meetings with Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov. The opinions on the social network seem to prevail that this is a terrible blunder by the showman, who has connected with the corrupt Prosecutor General, and this will be the end of the referendum and ...
More »With a three-way gambit, Trump is currently winning his second term
Martin Nikolaev While you read in the media how the US is preparing for a new recount of ballots and the stars are magically aligning for Hillary Clinton to become president, Donald Trump, as usual, is doing what his critics least expect – winning his second term before the first has even begun. …
More »President Trump - expectations and lessons
See: Dimitar Karagegov's comment Georgi Vuldjev's comment Our media appearances on the topic Dimitar Karagegov - The collapse of the mainstream media is complete The thing that I will remember these elections with, purely as a machine and mechanism, is the total collapse of the traditional media. A candidate who was not supported by any …
More »Comments: Who won the second US presidential debates?
We have collected the comments and first impressions of various EKIP authors regarding last night's debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The compilation will be supplemented throughout the day. Dimitar Karagegov: In the first part of the debate, Trump was tragic and I started writing about how much he failed. However, the second part, I think, was …
More »Look at Donald Trump, think of Slavi Trifonov
Voter Anger A huge portion of voters around the world are angry. Some are angry at their politicians because they lied to them about getting out of the crisis – supposedly it is over and the problems have been solved, and yet neither wages are rising nor jobs are being created. Others are angry at the weakness of their countries to …
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