Bad vibe can’t squash travel bug, so far
Another top year for tourism?
Open for tourists, closed for migrants – this is the message of the Orbán government for foreigners. Tourism is booming, as if the refugee crisis could not influence the image[…]
Net exports and consumption to go hand in hand?
A question of economic growth
Hungary had to renounce the title of European Growth Champion quite quickly. Still, the government is insisting on three-comma figures; agriculture is to blame for the fact that the results[…]
Extent of help still unclear
Restrictions, grey areas cloud personal bankruptcy initiative
September 1 is not just the beginning of another school year in Hungary. It’s also the beginning for a new institution: private bankruptcy. Whether the legislative initiative, which is interpreted[…]
Doubt amid debt
Macroeconomic situation at mid-year
The slowing economic growth and the new top score in state debt are something to think about, on the other hand the unrestrained increase in real wages and a top[…]
Farms blamed for slower GDP growth
Q2 expansion below analyst expectations
Hungary’s GDP grew by an annual 2.7 percent in the second quarter, slowing from 3.5 percent in the previous quarter, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said this week in a[…]
Waiting, worrying continues for brokerage victims
‘Exhausting’ process isn’t finished yet
The payment of compensation for the victims of the Quaestor broker scandal began in mid-July. This does not mean that the complex story is over and done with. Although the[…]
No pressure, no severity
A satisfactory picture in monetary policy
The Monetary Council of the Hungarian National Bank cut the base interest rate by another 15 points at its June meeting, with an end result of 1.5%. This is another[…]
Families, pork eaters have reason to be happy
State budget 2016
It’s done: Parliament has decided on the state budget for 2016. Normally this happens only in late autumn. The Orbán government is willing to prove to us that it makes[…]
Where immigration is not an option
2014 – An inventory (Part 4, final)
The Central Statistical Office (KSH) published an inventory of more than 100 pages about 2014. We have browsed through the sea of numbers for our readers, and besides the well-known[…]
What moves the economy forward?
Gross Domestic Product
The national economy continues to grow dynamically, with expectations only differing in trusting whether the number three will appear in front of the comma in the total annual result or[…]
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