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Tweet A follow-up for the 7 billion video. This time National Geographic takes us into the commonality of the expanding population. So, are you typical? I am not. At least so far 7 Billion: Are You Typical? — National Geographic Magazine from Jamie Lee Godfrey on Vimeo.
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Tweet So, what does 7 billion people actually mean? 7 Billion, National Geographic Magazine from Jamie Lee Godfrey on Vimeo.
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Tweet Food miles are strongly associated with products’ carbon footprint, but most of the time a direct correlation not being the case. While carbon footprint is an indicator of environmental impact, the food miles address the distance food is being transported from its production point to the end consumer. Food miles are not an adequate [...]
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Tweet Wal-Mart, the biggest American retailer, has a huge impact not only on the local economy but on the global one as well. The company’s strategy of having the lowest prices (which is not always necessarily true) seems to have much more implications than I thought. In a documentary entitled Is Wal-Mart good for America? senior [...]
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Tweet BBC’s third episode from “The Love of Money” describes the story of world’s reaction to the financial crisis, what has been done, and what has been learnt from that. The documentary brings an interesting parallel between some European countries’ actions (U.K., France, Ireland, Iceland) and US, immediately after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in September [...]
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Tweet The second episode of the BBC Series – The Love of Money presents the boom years before the bust. Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is being accused of making a serious mistake that triggered the financial crisis. Greenspan admits that he might have been partially wrong and he adds [...]
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Tweet Friedrich August von Hayek was an Austrian-born economist and philosopher known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the 20th century. …and… John Maynard Keynes who was a British economist whose ideas [...]
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Tweet My relationship with First Investment Bank goes back 1 year and a half. I first started using their services when I got a debit card and the respective current account. After a while, I decided to go for Online Banking, since I have monthly payments to make and, as I figured it out at [...]
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