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Greatest ever letter of complaint Not to be missed!
This is a genuine letter of complaint sent to Sir Richard Branson. We know that because we checked with Virgin. Polly in the press office confirmed that Branson phoned the man back because “he always likes to hear feedback”.
More on aviation and airlines and Wednesday-night.com ; Financial […]

Income Trusts on Wednesday-Night.com
Four years later
Flaherty offers apology for income trust hurt
Jim Flaherty may have faced down the financial crisis, but he was forced on the defensive by a feisty senior yesterday at a policy conference, where he issued a public apology for the hardship inflicted by his decision to tax income trusts nearly […]

Innovation in emerging markets
Wednesday-Night.com Emerging markets

Meet the world’s next growth engine
(Financial Post) While the developed world grapples with the mass retirement of its baby boom generation, India is just welcoming its boomers into the workforce.
There, a demographic bulge will lead to an enormous labour force spike in the coming years, presenting India with a profound […]

With thanks to David Kilgour for bringing this to our attention.
This is the first time that we have seen the topic raised in such a complete fashion. Therefore, we are posting an only slightly abridged version, at least for the present. As the world becomes more aware and the media pays more attention, we will add […]

Vanity Fair has followed the Madoff story tenaciously.
The size and extent of the damage caused by the Bernie Madoff (yes, ironically, it really is pronounced ‘Made-off’) Ponzi scheme is so great that we have decided to give it its own page, rather than mingling it with the news of the rest of the economic and […]

(Economist special report) The world turned upside down
The emerging world, long a source of cheap labour, now rivals the rich countries for business innovation, says Adrian Wooldridge
IN 1980 American car executives were so shaken to find that Japan had replaced the United States as the world’s leading carmaker that they began to visit Japan to […]

Arianna Huffington: Is Undercover Boss the Most Subversive Show on Television?
(HuffPost) Undercover Boss, the new CBS reality show in which corporate CEOs don disguises and spend a few days experiencing what it’s like to be a low-level worker at their companies, is the kind of popular entertainment that can start out as one thing — […]

Jeff Rubin blog
Bombardier layoffs reduced after it agrees to job-sharing with union
More than 100 Bombardier Aerospace employees will avoid layoff next year after the manufacturer regional jets agreed to a job-sharing agreement with its union. The Montreal-based company will now lay off 604 workers next year as it reduces production of regional jet because of […]

The Economy - What went wrong & What’s next? II ; PBS Frontline coverage of The Meltdown
A year later, the analyses,  justifications and theories emerge
Wall Street’s Near-Death Experience
(Vanity Fair November 2009) With the implosion of Lehman Brothers, in September 2008, the realization dawned: Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs could be next. In an excerpt from […]

In response to the video news summaries, there were several negative reactions about the way news is presented.
In a non-technical statement, our favorite technician reminds us that business reports and economic analyses carried on the nightly news are retrospective.  The average viewer is discouraged by the reports, believing that we are in a recession/depression, rather […]