The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) is a renowned organization focusing on research, economic policy advice and analysis. It sees itself as the research institute for globalisation issues in Germany. The institute cooperates worldwide with universities, research ins...
Mario Hose
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June 24, 2020
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“How far the coronavirus will spread is yet to be determined, but its current reach will be enough to slow major economies around the world.” I wrote those words in February in my newsletter as my team and I went deep into China’s ...
Marin Katusa
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April 3, 2020
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In the 1960s, the Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, an influential economist in the USA, studied various models of monetary policy. One of the models of how the Federal Reserve can boost consumption and achieve its inflation targets while preventing deflation would be by iss...
Mario Hose
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March 18, 2020
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Helium and hydrogen are now not only driving space travel and modern mobility, the inert gases are also the focus of investors and politicians. While Elon Musk and Richard Branson want to make space tourism possible and NASA is using SpaceX to implement extensive programmes wi...
Mario Hose
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August 13, 2020
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As is well known, the future is traded on the stock exchange and for this reason investors are always looking for the right time to start a new investment. It can be political decisions or new technological trends that cause sales and profits to soar. In the case of Covid-19, ...
Mario Hose
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September 8, 2020
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Niobium: A much needed key metal for the automotive industry “Usage of about 300 gram of niobium in steel for a mid-size passenger car reduces the weight of the vehicle by approximately 200 kg, in turn, improving the fuel economy of the vehicle (1 liter per 200 km) an...
Stephan Bogner
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March 25, 2019
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Summary Vanadium is the 20th most abundant element in the earth’s crust and the 13th most available metal, but it is a challenge to recover. Heap leaching is a method that has taken low grade deposits (gold, copper, nickel and cobalt) and recovers sufficient ...
Michael Drozd
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March 29, 2019
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Your average marijuana plant is a rather unimposing, forest green weed that blends well with nature. The dirty truth, however, is that the business of growing cannabis is anything but green. In fact, the growing of pot is so power-intensive that its ecological footprint is qui...
James Burgess, Oilprice.com
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January 15, 2020
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The rubber has finally hit the road for Cannabis 2.0. And conventional wisdom says it's the infused beverage market to be the engine that will drive it. Hill Street Beverage Company Inc . ( TSX-V.BEER , OTCQB: HSEEF , Forum ) boasts some of the infused beverage sector&...
Dave Jackson
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June 15, 2020
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Mining is all around us, though invisible to urban dwellers, so it’s easy to forget that we live in a world of finite resources. Unlike forestry or agriculture, whose crops are renewable, once ore comes out of the ground and is processed into metals, it&Close...
Richard (Rick) Mills
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April 5, 2019
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