THE IMF ON THE HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC STRATEGY AND MATOLCSY’S ANSWER
The IMF’s Executive Board concluded its post-program monitoring of Hungary for the year 2010, and the report is less diplomatic than the usual IMF assessments. The IMF considers the government’s...
View ArticleHungarian public opinion on Viktor Orbán’s “war of independence”
It is an open secret that some leading European politicians worry about adopting too stringent a stance toward the Orbán government in case of a backlash. Their fear, which is fed by the Hungarian...
View ArticleGyörgy Matolcsy and Goldman Sachs: November 17, 2011
Exactly a month ago I wrote a post about Helga Wiedermann’s forthcoming book under the title “‘Secrets revealed’: Memoirs about the financial attacks on Hungary.” Wiedermann, about whom nobody knew...
View ArticleLabor shortage, emigration, and the economy
A couple of weeks ago Hungary’s National Association of Employers and Manufacturers (Munkaadók és Gyáriparosok Országos Szövetsége/MGYOSZ) sounded the alarm about the acute labor shortage in the...
View ArticleDeputy central bank chairman Júlia Király’s personal story of the 2008...
I just finished reading a fascinating book by Júlia Király, deputy chairman of the Hungarian Central Bank between 2007 and 2013, on her recollections and analysis of the 2008 economic crisis in...
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