As the sunny days in Amsterdam are slowly drifting away (in case you were lucky to see those), the demand for a comforting cup of hot chocolate and a nice evening watch is on the rise. In case you are the kind of person that freerides on your friend’s Netflix account, the Apple-TV launch may
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The following article is referenced to the Financial Times article: Volkswagen: System Failure by Richard Milne: https://www.ft.com/content/47f233f0-816b-11e5-a01c-8650859a4767 The article gives a good overview of the various scandals that the Volkswagen (VW) was involved in, as well as some basic information with regards to the so-called ‘German model of capitalism’ and the
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More on a decade following the most devastating financial crisis since the Great Depression. The effects of a crisis are experienced today. Its outbreak occurred on September 15, 2008, when the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. As of that moment, the United States collapsed and then the rest of the developed economies followed.
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Microfinance in the form of microcredits was born in the 1970s. The original idea of its founder and Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus was to provide the poor in less developed countries with an opportunity to take small loans of, for instance, $20. This money is given to people who lack access to conventional banks
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