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Source: NSI Comment: In February, consumer price inflation accelerated to 3.22% on an annual basis from 2.96% in January, according to the latest NSI data. The most serious growth continues to be reported in prices in the "entertainment and culture" category, although in February there was a slowdown compared to the inflation reported in the previous month ...

Source: NSI Comment: In the first month of 2019, consumer price inflation accelerated to 2.96% year-on-year from 2.67% in December, according to the most recent NSI data. Prices in the "entertainment and culture" category increased at the highest rate (8.35%), while the largest decline was recorded in transport prices …

Direct state intervention in pricing is a traditional tool for solving economic or social problems caused by a sharp increase or decrease in prices. The economic past of Bulgaria during the period between the First and Second World Wars (1919-1939) reveals some typical practices of state pricing and their consequences. It was already …

In the penultimate month of the year, the Bulgarian media again actively sought the expertise of the authors of the EKIP. Particular attention was paid to the topic of “urban planning” on the occasion of the report “Urban Planning Policy in Sofia” published at the beginning of the month with recommendations for improving urban planning policy. The problems with parking were commented on by our chairman Stoyan …

Author: Frank Shostak, Mises.org According to many mainstream economists, the lack of a strong correlation between money supply growth and growth in various price indices casts doubt on the theory that increases in the money supply are the main source of inflation. It is also argued that before 1990 there was a positive correlation between …

Jonathan Newman, Mises Institute A great wave of anti-market and pro-socialist opinions has flooded the media in recent years. In most cases, these anti-markets make no distinction between state-sponsored organizations like the IMF and real markets. But that doesn’t matter, because the articles are often populist and vaguely worded – …