Politics

International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde said the U.S. government’s debt reduction plans are too abrupt, which could cause the U.S. economy to contract by over one and a half per cent.

However, politicians should be viewed as self-interested as any other economic agents. Taking this fact into consideration, is it possible that higher salaries of politicians lead to increase in public welfare?

A great reformer, a friend of Poland and freedom, the symbol of female emancipation – the truth about Margaret Thatcher’s governance is much more complicated than these simple and overused clichés.

Margaret Thatcher was the most eminent British politician in the 20th century.

(...) for half a million rent for Baroness Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (have you ever imagined something like that exists?)

The world has been slipping further into economic illiteracy over the past five years, with seemingly no country immune.

Monitoring of voting of members of the National Council of the Slovak Republic.

Crisis on Cyprus brought new tailwinds in the sails of the crisis in Europe and fully opened the question which had only been cautiously considered behind the scenes until now – how to deal with European banks?

In the majority of cases, they are extremely anti-development and fulfilling these demands will only lead to the increase in the unemployment rate.

The negotiating power of a single worker is in principle smaller than the one of a big company which employs him or her.