The programme extending the paid parent leave is to cost taxpayers PLN 2 billion. If all eligible parents were to participate, the figure should amount to as much as PLN 5.2 billion. However, already while drafting the programme,...
When adopting last year the act reducing the level of the contribution transferred to Open Pension Funds (OFEs), the government promised another amendment. It was designed to force an increase in competition between the funds,...
As I wrote the other day, I have always been lukewarm to the idea of a budget commission because I don’t think we are ready, politically or economically, for serious deficit reduction. I also have problems with the...
Te szokujące dane cytuje ekonomista i analityk Bert Dohmen. Jest to całkowity dług publiczny, zobowiązania gospodarstw domowych i zadłużenie przedsiębiorstw. Gdyby dodać jeszcze zobowiązania państwa z tytułu Social...
The Keynesian Kool-Aid drinkers keep insisting that big deficits and rapidly growing piles of public debt don’t really matter as long as there is „slack” in the economy. But they live in a fantasy world...