Not a day goes by without news of deals by investment banks, Hedge Funds and Private Equity companies in the financial press. Deals in the branch are becoming ever more complicated, and are getting more and more gigantic....

I have come across the name Daniel Kahneman in the press recently, and now I have read an article about his work. Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist, and works on basic questions people have like “Rather rich and healthy than poor...

The Year of the Dolphin: www.yod2007.org

This will not help the cheerful creature much, as it is just one more feel-good action of our consumer society. I have had enough of on the one hand hearing about maximising...

Retired German General Klaus Naumann has made a very interesting statement a couple of days ago. I don’t think there is any more to say on this subject, and one should simply enjoy his central message.

Quote from retired General...

Who does not know the endless monologues by politicians and managers on TV interviews or talk shows. “Rhetorical diarrhoea”. I just want to hear the facts, and if the interviewee denies all plans for tax rises or job losses, then...

Whilst browsing the internet, I have come across the book "Die Entdeckung der Faulheit" (published in English as “Hello Laziness”) by Corinne Maier. She describes our current economic system from her point of view and relates her...

This month I’m reading the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. I could read and reread this book, and would still not understand how people can follow orders to try and kill each other so vilely. 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...