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The mystery of innovation

Lately, it seems to me that economic entities worldwide have been holding their breath waiting for the next drastic innovation to breathe life into the suffocating global economy. However, the economy of innovation seems unable to satisfy this hunger for change and novelty that would pull developed economies out of …

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To innovate or not to innovate?

Companies of all sizes and activities advertise their innovativeness. However, it seems that not all of them are aware of how to create and manage the inherent uncertainty of the innovation process, and even fewer allow themselves to practically introduce non-standard approaches or products into their work.

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Buffettology

Last week, among the leading news in the financial markets was the annual address by American investment magnate Warren Buffett to the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway.

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Democracy as a commodity*

The theory says that the new world order is a direct product of the international legal order, that in international relations after the end of the Cold War, force is not a leading factor. I tend to agree with the theory, although the idea of a legal order in communication between states, the result of the coordination of their sovereign wills, …

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Credit ratings – fiction or reality? (Part II)

The first part of the article can be found here. The Big Three The three largest official agencies that largely dictate the rules of the market are: Moody's, headquartered in the US, and the company holds a 40% market share. The largest shareholder in Moody's is Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway Inc; …

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Credit ratings – fiction or reality? (Part I)

The world has been through all sorts of economic, political, and social turbulence over the past four years. The period has certainly put the status quo and world order to the test, but was it all as spontaneous and unforeseen as it is being said? If we assume that we are in a planned phase of a strategy to centralize global power, then …

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GM society

Stella Zlatkova Some time ago, two materials circulated in the media, which positively indicate signs of some rather alarming trends. The first was published back in 2010 and caused mass discontent among Bulgarian agricultural producers. The second is the information leaked to the recently notorious Wikileaks website regarding the strategy of the Embassy of …

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