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This BBC documentary gives a deep insight into Russian Politics and how power got transferred from the oligarchs to Vladimir Putins since the 1990s. Boris Abramowitsch Beresowski used to be one of the richest people in Russia – an Oligarch – and was called “Kingmaker” because he was known of bringing his friends into the [...]

At the turn of the millennium, Randall Lane, former head of Forbes’ Washington bureau, knew what this decade would be about.  He started Trader Monthly – a slick glossy magazine that was to become the GQ of Wall Street. It portrayed a glamorous world of yachts and private jets, fine wines and lavish mansions. Meanwhile, trading floors were functioning [...]

It seems the legendary Ikarus comes alive wenn we watch this two documentations of peoply flying in jet-wings from one land to another (Great Britain to France) or even from one continent to another (Europe to Africa). From a marketing perspective these events were very interesting as well for Red Bull and Webtel.mobi, due to [...]

What was once a great area for fishing became a dangerously poisened area full of oil spreading all over the Gulf of Mexico. In 2010 the BP oil platform Deep Water Horizon had an explosion and was leaking oil at around 5000 feet below sealevel. Overoll around 4.9 million barrels of oil leaked after the [...]

The African dream has come true when it hosted the 2010 World Cup, 3.18 millions fans attended 64 matches, 4.5 billion dollars spent on infrastructure, 400 thousand jobs created. But what will happen after the World Cup, through the South African point of view? We’ve heard many poor South Africans and they’ve shared their expectations [...]

New movie from the “Zeitgeist” creators. This time “Zeitgeist – Moving Forward” is about the “social order” in our monetary-market economics. Main topics in this movie are cyclical consumption, pressure for cost efficiency, the waste of labor, energy and materials, our dept based monetary system an the overall decision-making processes in the market system.

China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with more than 10% annually growth rate over the last 30 years. It just recently surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world and will probably replace the USA as the number 1 economy in the world by 2020. Martin Jaques is [...]

Since 1924 the Black Friday opens the holiday shopping season every year. The day after thanksgiving is a very popular shopping day because many retail-shops like Best-By and online-shops like Amazon offer special discounts for their customers on this specific day. Black Friday is called so, because it marks the day where shops begin writing [...]

Tetris is probably one of the most famous computer-games that have ever been developed. Alexei Pajitnov createt this simple, yet addictive game in 1984 as a student at the famous Soviet Union’s Academy of Science. It initially worked only on the Soviet Elektronika 60 Computer and got very popular among staff members and students at [...]

Kiva lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world – empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty. You can loan as little as USD 25 and get paid the money back on succeed of the entrepreneurs business. I loaned some money myself to Eloy, a guy from Bolivia who does work [...]