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One currency rules them, it alone will discover them, it alone will gather them all and wrap them in control in the city of Frankfurt, where the Brussels darkness looms. The debate on globalization shifts its focus from the traditional plane of left and right and reorganizes itself under a new dimension, namely national versus …

What is Bitcoin? What is it for? What problem does it solve? What is this “cryptocurrency” anyway? And why does humanity care about something like this? Thirteen years after its creation, Bitcoin (and along with it other cryptocurrencies) remains a mystery to the average person. Even many specialists and experts in the fields of computer science, …

This text was originally published in the collection "2020: Inside and Beyond" Every intricate story has to start somewhere. In this one about the super-massive printing of money, that moment is in 2008, and the starting point is the United States. To get to the answer to the question of why central banks are printing more today …

TEAM · 32: Is the crisis over? 0:21 – The macroeconomic dimensions of the current crisis (labor market, banking system) 11:02 – How does the crisis affect P2P lending platforms? 15:07 – Will we see another mass quarantine due to the "second wave" of Covid-19? 18:17 – The policy of central banks at the moment and …

Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk, original publication from 14.04.2020 The global coronavirus epidemic has significantly accelerated the crisis trends of the modern world. The monetary and fiscal policy measures proposed by international organizations (IMF, World Bank, OECD, UN) and G7 governments after emerging from the global recession of 2008-2009 had a short-term positive effect …

Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk, original publication from 14.04.2020 The world economy is once again threatened by an unprecedented global recession, unemployment of 1.3 billion people in the world, a debt crisis, budget holes, defaults and other scourges of the multi-layered systemic crisis. “A crisis like no other” – said IMF President Kristalina Georgieva …

In the new special episode of "The Intelligent Investor" we comment on what has happened in the last few weeks since the coronavirus pandemic escalated worldwide. How badly will different economies, sectors and banking systems be hit? What will happen to government debt, especially in the member states of the European Union? Will there be a new …

In the first episode of "The Intelligent Investor" for 2020, Metodi Tsanov and Georgi Vuldjev summarize the main financial and economic events from the beginning of the year and how they affect the financial markets. The effects of the coronavirus epidemic, central bank policy and government debt interest rates are among the topics that …

Author: Frank Shostak, Mises.org The idea that more money can boost the economy is based on the belief that money has a stimulatory effect by increasing aggregate spending. More money in people’s pockets means they can spend more, and the rest follows from that. Money, in this sense, is a means …

Author: Nikolay Nenovski Professor at Jules Verne University, France Former member of the BNB Governing Board The material was written on October 30, 2019. Due to the limitations of the text size, I will formulate my views as theses. On the monetary policy of the ECB and in general on the monetary policy of the leading central banks I believe (and …