Filed under: North America, United States, Hotels and Accommodations, News The financial crisis isn't just a problem for the residential market - hotels are getting slammed. So are cruise lines, and we all know about the airline industry's unending woes. The travel industry in the United States is s...

It’s not a great depression, neither is it a great recession we’re going through now. At the Brite conference this week, Umair Haque called it a great “compression ,” as an economy built on perceived value reconciles with actual value. This morning, The New York Times finally...

Juan Enriquez: Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis. "Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don't look for it on your ballot -- or in the stock exchange. It'll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are go...

Filed under: Computers While their men sit in front of financial Web sites sobbing, Wall Street wives and girlfriends are now logging onto their own Web sites and commiserating, according to the London Times. The blog, called Dating a Banker Anonymous, affords "DABA Girls" the opportunity to bemoan ...

The media machers at Davos got together yesterday with three economists to ask what went wrong in financial coverage that did not warn of the crisis. Like other leaders from other segments of society here in the meeting of the machers, they did not don hairshirts. I believe that will be the worst ou...

I still love this song after so many years, this is funny remake: From Arbroath: 'At Christmas time we should always spare a thought for those less fortunate than us. After 20 years of bleeding the world, the global financial community has fallen on hard times. These people desperately need our thou...

Filed under: China There's been a lot of chatter recently over what the global financial crisis and impending recession means for the future of globalization. You see, critics have latched onto the recent failures of markets as the perfect argument for why we need to curb international economic inte...

My Guardian column this week argues that we’re witnessing not just the collapse of the financial (and auto and newspaper…) industries but the birth of a new economy best seen through - you guessed it - the lens of Google: The financial crisis might be damaging countless companies around ...