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Archive for June, 2009

Fashion has no mercy

Free Speech: Hadley Freeman Ponders The Fashionable Fallout Of A Faltering Economy
http://www.style.com/stylefile/2008/10/free-speech-hadley-freeman-ponders-the-fashionable-fallout-of-a-faltering-economy/
Contradicting to my other post about financialization of fashion, in this article it almost seems as if it doesn’t care if the economy has any impact on it at all. They feel like fashion still continues, still has the need to provide to people [...]

What’s the next step for fashion?

Fashion industry hit by hard financial times
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/NationalNews/Fashion-industry-hit-by-hard-financial-times/tabid/423/articleID/104380/cat/64/Default.aspx
In this articles it basically just talks about how the crisis harmed the fashion industry.  I find it ineresting that they are talking on new ideas on how to make their sales. I did my research paper on fashion and financialization of fashion.  WIth this point proven, there are [...]

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  • Antidote du Jour November 21, 2009
    Apologies for absence of links! Hope to be back to closer to usual programming early next week. […]
    Yves Smith
  • Stop the madness now! November 20, 2009
    By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns. A reader at Naked Capitalism asked us to respond to a recent article from the Christian Science Monitor asking Does US need a second stimulus to create jobs? Marshall Auerback has already done some heavy lifting – and taken all of the heat in the comments. He says emphatically yes. Now [...] […]
    Edward Harrison
  • Dodd: Bernanke Confirmation “Not Necessarily” a Foregone Conclusion November 20, 2009
    This clip is from an interview with blogger Mike Stark. Apologies for the poor sound quality. While Dodd indicates that he is “inclined to be supportive” of Bernanke, he is surprisingly cautious about making a broader statement, a sign of a shift in sentiment. […]
    Yves Smith
  • Ivy Zelman: “Home prices are going back down” November 20, 2009
    By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns. Yves is stuffed again today, so I am going to post at least once or twice. Hopefully, we will also see something from Jesse or George as well. This is a post I wrote overnight about rising delinquencies and shadow housing inventory. I am not convinced house prices [...] […]
    Edward Harrison
  • Links 11/20/09 November 20, 2009
    the price of water Archein Lions kill rare white tiger at Czech Republic zoo BBC (hat tip reader Steve L) Moira man fights off deer attack Press Republican (hat tip reader John L) Cinema popcorn is nutritional horror show: US study Raw Story (hat tip reader John D) The jobless rate-interest rate conundrum Tim Iacono Canada’s sub-prime mortgage time [...] […]
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