We all know conglomerates. Starbucks. McDonald’s, H&M, Milka. And so on, and
so on. And we all like them. Because, whenever we see their sign, we think
of the quality we associate with them. And that’s the reason we mostly buy
products from conglomerates: because everyone knows what the products are
like and they are the same in ever …

Copenhagen was just a landmark in a new phase of brutalization

In December the environmental negotiators gathered together in the Danish
capital: What was it generally about?

The roadmap of Bali 2007 had stipulated that the parties should engage in
Copenhagen on a new mandatory regulation for climate protection after 2012.
But t …

Of course, managers have a huge charge in view of how many people they keep.
But the payment for this accomplishment mostly amounts to a few 100.000
dollars in a year. The concerns, which pay so much money for only one
person, are firing many workers in the same time. Also the payment of
managers is often connected with a lot of bonu …

New York.: The metropolis at America’s east coast. An example for all the
world: fashion, clubs, movies, life, freedom. New York is known everywhere.
Especially the New York Fashion-Week is an example for all other
fashion-weeks such as in Paris and Milano. In New York there are the
greatest designers, the most beautiful models and …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded in 1947 with the target to stabilize currencies and avoid economic crises. The way this is done is to give credits to states which are getting into financial problems, so that the economy is strengthened. Since the East-Asia crisis in 1998, which were at least partly caused by the narrow-m …

His name is Yacouba Diarra, he is 14 and he is a child slave.
Smuggled across the boarder he was brought to the cocoa-producing heartland in Ivory Coast from his village in Mali by trackers who promised him $135 for a year’s labor.

Switzerland is said to be the land of where the finest of all chocolate is produced. The question is: what is it that makes chocolate so fine? Is it the smooth taste? Is it its consistency? The quality of the ingredients used? Yes, it´s all that. But there are some more aspects that one could or should pay attention to.