Adolfas Slezevicius led the sixth government from 1993 until 1996. His cabinet proposed and implemented the adoption of a currency…

Ms. Elena Leontjeva was one of the active champions of the currency board system in the pats decade. Under her…

Mr. Gitanas Nauseda is considered to be among the most vehement opponents of the currency board system. When this reform…

Mr. Sigitas Siaudinis is Head of the Monetary Policy Division of the Bank of Lithuania, Ph.D. He has studied the…

Mr. Kurt Schuler is Senior Economist to the Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. More…

The Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) has been awarded a prize of the Templeton Freedom Awards Program given in the…

The EU’s ambitious goals, contradictory objectives, modest performance   In January of this year, the European Commission issued a rather…

“The Free Market” is a quarterly newsletter of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute, disseminated in electronic form for free.  …

[*]   In the following article LFMI’s Vice-president Guoda Steponaviciene analyses the fallacies underlying the knowledge economy, a fashionable movement…

  In the following commentary LFMI’s Senior Policy Analyst Ramunas Vilpisauskas doubts whether the payments from the EU budget will…

In the following article LFMI’s Vice-president Ruta Vainiene speaks about corporate investments exempted from the profit tax – a tax…

  For many, an invitation to a weekend conference in Baghdad would seem like an un-hoped-for opportunity to take gratuitous…