The manager Douglas Tompkins founded the fashion house "Esprit", and led it to success. He also founded "The North Face". The New Yorker sold his shares in the companies and invested the resulting millions in saving the Chilean...

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My theory is that the up and coming economic powers, particularly China and the Tiger states, want to beat the western economic system with its own weapons. They flood the world market with the commodities which...

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I don't think so at all. Of course, it isn't so sexy to watch tired-seeming federal bankers or economists from famous banks while they expound about economic interrelations. The content and statements are...

Bad news for whales. The Japanese whaling fleet wants to carry on killing Minke Whales and now even Fin Whales for supposedly scientific reasons. Must the Japanese eat whalemeat? An online article in the Spiegel collects the...

The best-selling US author Jared Diamond writes about vanishing resources, climate change, overpopulation and ecological damage in his book Collapse. His description of the downfall of a culture on Easter Island is a clear...

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When I look at the quarterly reports of HSBC or Citibank, I find this article very amusing. Comparing even a quarter's profits of HSBC with the value of a German bank from Frankfurt takes your breath...

That may be the case, but the head of Goldmann Sachs, Henry M Paulson, has a much more optimistic view of Germany - check out his interview in the Spiegel from 22.10.05. He particularly praises German firms for doing their...

With this entry I would like to advertise for investment in a piece of nature, as a shareholder of the Grüne Band. You can acquire a piece of what used to be the border strip between East and West Germany. Buying a share helps to...

As I was trying to close an account with the currently largest German private bank today, I noticed this bicycle outside the main entrance to the Wiesbaden branch. I just couldn't resist taking a photo. As a shareholder in the...

Jobs or no jobs. If China continues to boom, natural resources will become increasingly scarce and prices will rise accordingly. That is an economic problem to start with, but it is much worse what is actually done with the raw...