Post-Recession, the Search for Quality of Life Begins

Last October the UK economy was expected to have grown once again, and the recession therefore to be called to an end, but it’s taken…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 1, 2010 12:14PM | No Comments »

Emerging Market Funds are Better than Cheap Plonk

We sip wine, we gulp water. Good manners? Actually, basic economics. Water is relatively abundant and cheap, wine scarce and dear.

So if…

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Posted by John Rapley in Hot Money | December 3, 2009 1:04PM | 1 Comment »

Recession Is Over, Semantically Speaking

The financial services industry is like a nervous lover – if you pump it full of praise and confidence, it perks up and performs, but…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 16, 2009 2:38PM | 1 Comment »

Kraft – Cadbury Merger Seemingly Very Much On

Last year saw Mars chew up Wrigley for $23bn, right as the world was barrelling towards all-out recession. Now once again, makers of food you…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 9, 2009 12:38PM | 2 Comments »

“Green Shoots” Not Evident, And Is The Most Annoying Phrase Of Financial Crisis

“Green shoots” is an irritating phrase, giving rise as it does to endless crappily stretched metaphors. “Some see green shoots in hedges”,

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 23, 2009 1:24PM | No Comments »

CBI Bums Everyone Out By Saying Recession Won’t End Til 2010

The constant upswing in the banking sector means everyone’s paying back their government money at such a rate that it’s starting to make last autumn…

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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | June 15, 2009 11:13AM | No Comments »

Can It Be? Is The Recession Really Ending?

The stock market has been rallying, the sun’s out, that new Star Trek movie looks pretty good – maybe life’s not so bad after all!…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 12, 2009 1:00PM | No Comments »

Darling And CBI Look Beyond Recession, Others Still Staring Into Abyss

It’s Budget week, and apart from getting to do that holding-the-red-suitcase-up thing, Alastair Darling has to generate the confidence that he’s turning the economy round.…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 20, 2009 11:41AM | No Comments »

“Econocide”: The Most Depressing Meme Of The Recession

Words are being created to articulate the terror known as the economy, as some American psychologists have coined the not-at-all sensational term ECONOCIDE to describe…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Hot Money | March 12, 2009 2:17PM | No Comments »

Recession Youth, or “Generation OMG”, Are Losing Jobs, Starting Uni

Those with a stock portfolio, a mortgage, a six-figure bonus or a job in the car industry are the high-profile victims of the recession thus…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 10, 2009 2:07PM | No Comments »

Maria Schaeffler Refused State Aid, Has To Deal With Being Linked To Nazis

Maria Schaeffler, the German industrialist who looks like 1970s hair-dye advertising made flesh, is in another spot of bother. We’ve been

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 6, 2009 1:07PM | 2 Comments »

Milan Fashion Week Haunted by Size-Zero Spectre of Recession

This season’s Milan Fashion Week was overshadowed by the recession, from the mood of the designs to the actual financial troubles of the designers;…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | March 6, 2009 12:23PM | No Comments »