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There is no unregulated market

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The big economic problem the world faces is linguistic semantics. The word “regulation” is now understood to mean “government regulation.” We are unaware of the alternative: consumer regulation. This is a problem because we accept so much government intervention, when in fact we would be better off without it. We demand some kind of regulation with …

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Proposed bans on advertising and distribution of lottery tickets are inadequate

This is the opinion that our economist Nikola Filipov shared in the "Business Daily" program on "Evropa" TV: "It is not adequate to introduce changes to the laws in this way, from one day to the next, without any economic argumentation. This simply sends a lot of …

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The debate over doner kebabs shows a lack of evidence-based policies

the doner kebabs

Author: Bill Wertz, vocaleurope.eu The latest move by the Social Democrats and Greens in the European Parliament has called for a gradual phasing out of phosphate in doner kebabs. Or at least that’s what the headlines were saying until the Social Democrats’ wing came out with the claim that this was actually fake news. The popular Turkish dish is …

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