Posts Tagged ‘money’

Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas to do ‘Wall Street’ sequel

Thursday, April 30, 2009 20:58 By GSerrano

Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas have agreed to do the sequel of the film ‘Wall Street’ (1987). Fox Studios is also negotiating with actor Shia LaBeouf for a role in the film. Allan Loeb wrote the screenplay. Ed Pressman, producer of the original film, will likewise finance the sequel. Filming is expected to start this [...]

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Business as Usual: Billionaires Deal-hunting During Recession

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 13:08 By GSerrano

While the current recession may be pinching them a bit, some of the world’s billionaires see the proverbial silver lining in the global economic rain clouds. Credit their healthy outlook on money, maybe. They earned their billions, so what can stop them from earning more? – well, only the (real) end of the world, perhaps.
Forbes [...]

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Visa Card Ready to Launch New Global Campaign Tomorrow

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:31 By Madhuri Katti

Recession may not be best times to promote credits cards but world’s leading credit card brand, Visa, is all set to launch its new campaign on American Idol on Wednesday.  The first two ads of the series, ‘Let’s go’ and ‘Aquarium’ will go on air followed by print campaign and online promotion will be made [...]

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The Lucrative Business of Divination

Thursday, January 8, 2009 21:06 By GSerrano

As would be obvious to most by now, entire business enterprises that market and sell the foretelling of things to come can go on the up and up. Ronald and Nancy Reagan were known to be close followers of what their psychic said and advised. Unfortunately, the much-consulted seer missed to foresee the huge deficits [...]

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When the Rich Don’t Spend

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 7:15 By GSerrano

The world goes haywire, that’s for sure. Money is beneficial in its utilitarian role. It is also meant to be circulated so that an economy can thrive. Problems start when people keep their money, instead of bringing it back into circulation as it should be. But the rich wouldn’t have become so without stashing their [...]

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Does Money Make You Go Bonkers?

Sunday, December 28, 2008 18:57 By GSerrano

Believe it or not, there is such a scientific field of study as Behavioral Economics. It wants to find out why you deal with money the way you do. Of course, it doesn’t stop there. It also makes recommendations on how you can stop managing your finances as crazily as you have. In other words, [...]

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A giant sinks: The GM case

Monday, December 8, 2008 21:35 By NARUTO

In a notice published in the specialist journal “Automotive News”, the American manufacturer of vehicles General Motors (GM) admitted that “disappointed” and sometimes “betrayed” U.S. consumers.
The initiative distunes the position that the company was adopting so far, the claim that the company’s executives could not have foreseen the effects of financial crisis on the [...]

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Vanity or charity?

Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:25 By NARUTO

The couple of actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has made an agreement with the “People” magazine so that the coverage on them is always positive.
The agreement was made after the birth of twin sons of the couple in July in France. Soon after, Pitt and Jolie have negotiated with the “People” and other magazines [...]

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