Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Oct 5, 2008	How Much is $700 Billion Really Worth?
The dollar amount of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s government bailout plan has been hammered into all our brains by now: 700 billion. But lest we lose sight of how much that actually is, VF.com compiles its own list of other things the lump sum could have been spent on. (All figures...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Oct 5, 2008	How Much is $700 Billion Really Worth?
The dollar amount of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s government bailout plan has been hammered into all our brains by now: 700 billion. But lest we lose sight of how much that actually is, VF.com compiles its own list of other things the lump sum could have been spent on. (All figures...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008	Michael Bloomberg
The 108th mayor of New York City has never shied from controversy—banning smoking from restaurants and bars, switching his political affiliation, and re-awakening City Hall. Here, the self-made mogul and philanthropist laments his Spanish and ponders politics and family. illustration by...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Sep 29, 2008	It's Not All Doom and Gloom..
Not every member of the  V.F. 100  is entangled in the financial crisis. Here’s what they were up to this week. →  Warren Buffett  (No. 5) invests $5 billion in  Lloyd Blankfein’s  (No. 20) Goldman Sachs  [GS] . The success of that investment, he says, hinges on the  federal...... [view]

Posted By:  wmsiew Posted On:  Sep 24, 2008	Cindy McCain's $300,000 Outfit
One of the persistent memes in the Republican line of attack against Barack Obama is the notion that he is an elitist, whereas the G.O.P. represent real working Americans like Levi “F-in’ Redneck” Johnston. It caught our attention, then, when First Lady Laura Bush and would-be...... [view]

Posted By:  ubershibs Posted On:  Jul 15, 2008	Today’s random news roundup
A bit of departure from my normal blog posts… I spent a lot of today reading/listening to the news, or my version of ‘the news’ (not all of it new, not all of it newsy). I do this most days, but today, for some reason, a lot of what I read really struck me. Mostly in a bad...... [view]

Posted By:  carimason Posted On:  Oct 19, 2007	theBRANDINGAIDSconference
"Can shopping at The Gap save the World?" Exploring the implications of the (PRODUCT) RED campaign, this was one of the questions asked at last Wednesday's BRANDING AIDS conference , hosted by New College and Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP). Though I felt that the keynote...... [view]