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• Dubai: the new Iceland? | Eirikur Bergmann

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Dubai seems to be teetering on the brink like Iceland was last year. But for the expat emirate, things could be even worse When the University of Chicago professor, Robert Z Aliber , came to Reykjavik in 2007 and saw the many building cranes rising from the tiny and northernmost capital in the world, he immediately ...
  5 hours ago

• Poll | Will the Dubai crisis cause another crash and double-dip recession?

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The looming risk that Dubai may default on colossal debts has shaken confidence on world financial markets. Is this crisis the beginning of another crash and a new round of recession?
  8 hours ago

• Dubai boom to bust?

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  When the credit crunch first hit Western Europe and America, many of my banker friends rushed to the Middle East, particularly Dubai, to pretty much the only area that was still doing any debt-related business.  It turns out that all that glimmers is not gold , and even that debt bubble looks like its burst now. ...
  10 hours ago

• Dubai: a city built on sand | Simon Jenkins

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Before the desert sands close over its luxury follies, lessons should be learned – number one, dont believe the hype Was anywhere heading for a fall so obviously as Dubai ? Yet why did no one ever scream? Why did everyone just marvel? When I first visited the place three years ago, it was already the most ...
  10 hours ago

• Information is beautiful Friday: the Billion Pound-O-Gram

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Huge sums of money are being bandied about and no-one knows what they are. Its time to put them into perspective 289 billion spent on this. 400 billion spent on that. When money reaches this level it literally becomes mind- boggling. Yet these figures are regularly issued by the government - and the media - as if ...
  12 hours ago

• Nicolas Cage blew it himself with over-the-top luxury buys, including nine Rolls-Royces

  
  Born Rich — Authority: 690
  Celebrities are known for living a decadent lifestyle. But then there are the corrosive effects of a decadent lifestyle which leads to a financial crisis, and the same has happened with Oscar winner actor Nicolas Cage, who is in complete financial distress for excessive spending. A lawsuit claims the actor splurged on ...
  16 hours ago

• Goodbye Dubai

  
  Gaian Economics — Authority: 114
  The vaunting towers of Dubai provide an irresistible metaphor for the hubris of globalised capitalism, and the newspapers have been falling over themselves to draw attention to the fact that this small, Gulf emirate is, quite literally, built on sand. For a green economist, however, it is the social and environmental ...
  17 hours ago

• How to Save on Wedding Photography Without Sacrificing Quality

  
  photos by richard — Authority: 124
  Weddings are, usually, beautiful occasions for the couple getting married as well as their guests. But the cost of a wedding can frequently cause a lot of misery both before and after the big day. Last year, the average US couple spent k on their wedding, with the average in the UK being far higher at a whopping ...
  1 day ago

• Stock up on foodie gifts for less at Graham & Green

  
  thefoodiegifthunter.co.uk — Authority: 128
  Be bright with your seasoning Just a quick note to say if you’d been inspired by, or just curious about,   my choices from Graham & Green then this is a good time to investigate the site. From today through till the end of the day on Monday you can get 20% off when you spend £50 or more online . You need ...
  1 day ago

• Could Dubai be the trigger?

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 127
  Warren Pollock points out that the real danger lies, not in Dubai possibly deciding to default on its sovereign debt, but in the credit default swaps surrounding the debt, which may magnify the problem by 10 - 100+ times. If some of these huge side bets are wild ones not adequately backed by the gamesters capital, off ...
  1 day ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 127
  Dont know why, but this made me smile: If youre feeling a little down today, and looking for something to be thankful for, be thankful you have not lent money to Dubai. Unless, of course, you have lent money to Dubai.
  1 day ago

• Conversations with my bailiff: 26th November

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 494
  My broadband connection has been cancelled by the telephone company. I know I don’t owe them any money.  I owe other people money, but not the internet provider, nor the telephone company. I am told it is an administrative error.  They tell me it is going to take 20 days to reconnect my broadband! Why am I so ...
  1 day ago

• The permanent scars of recession

  
  Economics — Authority: 142
  Chris Giles was on excellent form in this article in the Financial Times considering the economic fall-out from the recession. He looks at the causes of hysteresis effects arising from the recession - including a long term fall in employment rates, reduction in the size of the capital stock, a weaker pace of ...
  1 day ago

• All kinds of Vogue wonderful

  
  The Frock Report — Authority: 129
  A book extracting all the marrow from the wacky, escapist world of Vogue and presenting it in one unrelenting tome seems perfect for a credit crunch Christmas – no?After all if we cannot live the fashion dream let us page through its glossy pages. That is the editorial thesis behind The World in Vogue – ...
  1 day ago

• Wednesday Trends in Credit Cards & Debt

  
  Credit and Personal Finance Blog | Credit Karma — Authority: 496
  Thanksgiving is as much about delayed flights, crowded airports and highways as it is about turkey and cranberry sauce. As you prepare for one of the busiest travel moments of the year, know your travel rights and what to do in case you come up against any holiday travel snafus. Haven’t booked a flight yet but ...
  2 days ago

• A victory for bank customers too | Patrick Collinson

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Banks have already curbed excessive penalties, and if they had lost their fees court case, thrifty customers would have suffered The majority of customers will secretly cheer the shock victory by the banks over fees. It was pitched as a straightforward battle between all the banks on one side and all the customers ...
  2 days ago

• Bank of Englands covert loans: secrecy isnt always a bad thing |Michael White

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Transparency and openness are healthy features of accountability, but they are not always appropriate, at least in the short term Did you catch the news that the Bank of England ponied up a covert £61.6bn to keep RBS and HBOS from closing their doors and their cash machines last October? It was revealed to MPs by ...
  2 days ago

• What was really behind last years crash?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  In an exclusive extract from his new book, John Cassidy explains why the huge salaries of Wall Street bosses created a culture that helped trigger the financial crisis Economics, when you strip away the guff and the mathematical sophistry, is largely about incentives. At any time, these can get distorted in a ...
  3 days ago

• Homebuyer tax credits--even more problematic

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 449
  When Congress decided to extend unemployment benefits for Americans thrown out of work by the financial crisis caused by the combination of housing bubble, easy credit for homebuyers, and easy speculative profits for Big Banks (based on all of the above, plus the ability to delude themselves into thinking that all ...
  3 days ago

• Support your local sheriff

  
  The Plashing Vole: parataxis — Authority: 143
  I know, I know, you never thought youd hear me bigging up the rozzers (though I did once have a letter in the Guardian supporting the Metropolitan Police Commissioners decision to target bourgeois drug-users). Today, Im fully behind An Garda Siochana, the Irish police, in their call for off-duty officers to join ...
  3 days ago

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