He is one of the most powerful men on earth. But he does not want to lead a country, and it is ridiculous (as well as untrue) to accuse him of wanting to dominate the world. Peter Thiel believes in the right of each individual to freely
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Archive for the Finance Category
For over a century and a half, the Mafia organisation terrorised Sicily and, from there, the whole of Italy. It has corrupted dozens of politicians, prelates, bankers, magistrates and humiliated good people who were only trying to work. He brought drugs to an island that, also due
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Italy is approaching the vote: one of the top ten economies in the world finds itself in a serious crisis of credibility of its political class and, consequently, of democracy. A situation that is the same as in all other western countries, bar none. And yet, even
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Castles and lighthouses in the sunset, pure romance: Jersey is an island off the coast of Normandy, at the exit of the English Channel, half the size of Elba Island. A wad of flat green meadows, disputed for centuries between French and English aristocrats, and then attaining
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In three months, four top managers closely associated with Russia’s largest gas company, Gazprom, have died. They died atrociously, often together with their families. This ‘curse’ also affects businessmen from non-oil circles. Is it an unbelievable coincidence of fatal accidents or is there a plan to eliminate
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These are delicate hours in Sri Lanka: a profound crisis that has been gripping 22 million people for months is having devastating effects, the likes of which have never been seen before: there is a shortage of essential goods such as food, medicine, gas and electricity, but
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Art began as the personal pleasure of its creator, from the Neanderthal caves onwards. It has been refined, it has changed, it has become a symbol of beauty, it has been purchased to show off one’s home, one’s life, one’s social status. All this has remained, of
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Two and a half centuries ago, the physicist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier uttered a phrase that has become a mantra of our civilisation of progress: ‘Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed’[1] . In these difficult months of war and skyrocketing inflation, the media is full of
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The South African multi-billionaire Elon Musk has bought, for 44 billion dollars, the social network Twitter, which has over 200 million subscribers worldwide. He immediately explained that the aim of his operation is not to make money, but to influence democratic debate, opening up new avenues for
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There is a tax haven that doesn’t actually need the money from tax evasion, because it is still among the richest in the world. The United Arab Emirates have set up dozens of areas outside the law, and with these they earn impressive sums of money, but
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