Results tagged “recessionist”

As you read this the recession might well be over, Londonist takes stock of the damage the 2008-09 recession has done to our city. more ›

Want to make money while you drink? Those folk up at the Boogaloo in Highgate have come up with a clever scheme to get you spending your pennies by actually giving you some of theirs. Tonight is the launch of 'Recession', a club in a pub night that'll play fun indie & electro and pay you an actual £1 for every hour you stay. Sounds like a winner? Check it out. (Image / bagelmouse) more ›

People can get in lots of trouble for saying that good things can come out of recession, but no doubt about it, the legacy of the last was not all bad. Here we start 2009 with the first of our uplifting investigations into the silver lining behind the cloud. more ›

We were excited, therefore, to discover a new breed of bloggers: they are called journalists. They are different in many ways: they work in offices, use PCs rather than coffee stained Macbooks and carry crude iPhone-like devices know as 'Blackberries', but most crucially, they get paid actual money. more ›

The terrible stomach churning uncertainty that has embraced our fair city is only slightly tempered by the satisfaction that we called it right - the Office of National Statistics has spoken and the initial estimates for the third quarter of 2008 are that we dived into the recessional darkness. The ONS tell us the culprits were the manufacturing and service industries - so most of them then - only airlines, agriculture, forestry, fishing and, oh yes, the Government bucked the trend. more ›

A while back people used to worry about 'talking ourselves into recession' and, while we can hardly take a moral stance on this issue, there is likely some value to the concern. As we explained to the family over dinner the other day: more ›

It seemed in August that the worst of the credit crunch was behind us and the problems ahead were more straightforward issues of the business cycle and housing market. Yes, Mr Darling was prattling on about the worst economic crisis in 60 years but no one remembers 1948 as being a particularly bad year for the economy, unless you lived in west Berlin, and so we assumed the stress was getting to him and went on our merry way. Obviously he was onto something, even if he got the year a bit off (twenty years off by some guesses )... more ›

'Tough choices' - have been responsible for many of the irritating abnormalities of the London transport system - lines that stop for no good reason (Bakerloo, Victoria), stations that nearly interchange but don't quite make it (a few more of those already planned in Shepherd's Bush), the mysterious single leaf doors on the District Line's D Stock trains (cost less apparently) and the irritating fixed staircases on the Victoria Line ('sure, we'll put the escalator in later mate - won't take a minute'). more ›

Where now stands the ExCeL Centre (Alight here for Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Weightlifting, Wrestling, Boccia, Paralympic Table Tennis, Paralympic Powerlifting and Wheelchair Basketball) and its adjacent wasteland was to be a palace of sport and the arts known as The Londondome (being the eighties conjoined words were in and random capitalisation of mid-word letters was out). more ›

Like the Edmonton IKEA, a recession is something that only reveals itself when you've zoomed passed it, shouted yourself blind at the map reader and urged a fiery hell on whoever designed the nonsensical road system. However, we're taking a leap in the statistical darkness and starting to plan for the worst, on the understanding that if we turn out to be way-off we'll quietly forget this idea, and if we're right we can twirl our figurative moustaches in satisfaction and bask in warm glow of our prophetic wisdom. more ›