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Archive for October, 2008

Gucci and Sea Turtles: Dubai Carries On Regardless

Last week we had a look at the prospects of Westfield London, Greater London’s biggest shopping mall that’s been 10 years in the…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 27, 2008 11:08AM | 1 Comment »


Final Verdict on Nat Rothschild: Greed Head and High Level Marketeer for Russian Thugs

So… er, I think the tide is pretty much turning on the Nat Rothschild story. Below is a summary of some of the Nat Rothschild…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Other | October 27, 2008 10:53AM | 1 Comment »


The Power of Yes: WaMu’s Eerie Old Mantra

You know that book by Danny Wallace – the hundred page set piece Yes Man where he goes around agreeing with everything to try and…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | October 27, 2008 9:40AM | No Comments »


Greenspan Destroys Deregulation in 16 Seconds

Count the seconds… Click through headline to see video…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | October 24, 2008 8:53PM | No Comments »


Oh Dear Print Media, Here We Go: Radar Magazine FOLDS

American pop culture digest (and one of our favourite new mags) Radar, has just announced it will fold as of today. An alert has been…

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Posted by Daniel Stacey in Creative Economy | October 24, 2008 5:56PM | No Comments »



Everyone’s Sending Threatening Envelopes Full Of White Powder, Guess I Better Had Too

Once you get a meme rolling, that sucker ain’t slowing down any time soon, and this crisis is no exception. It’s seemingly reignited everyone’s favourite…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 24, 2008 12:53PM | 1 Comment »


Holy Market Uncertainty Batman!

Kudos to the blog VIX And More for noticing this rather odd pattern emerging in the graph plotting the progress of VIX,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 24, 2008 10:39AM | No Comments »


McDonalds Are Themselves Lovin’ It, ‘It’ Being Their Third Quarter Profits

While America does those organic food shops you get in posh boho areas on a massive, retail-park level with Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s, it…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Other | October 24, 2008 9:37AM | 11 Comments »


All the News That’s Fit to Fold: the New York Times Runs Into Trouble

The New York Times newspaper, figurehead of decent journalism globally and all around nice institution, looks like it’s suffering some serious pain at the moment.…

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Posted by Daniel Stacey in Creative Economy | October 24, 2008 9:17AM | 3 Comments »


The Financial Crisis Goes Cartographic!

Yesterday we showed you the financial crisis in cartoon form for those who’d grown bored of mere words to describe the chaos. But we’re already…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 23, 2008 2:01PM | No Comments »


Buck Mag: First Sign of Finance Industry Moving Into Kulture, Yeah?

The Press Gazette is reporting today that a new men’s mag -Buckhas just launched and is doing a bit of my-circulation-is-better-than-yours…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Creative Economy | October 23, 2008 1:46PM | 1 Comment »