As the American-led sub-prime mortgage fiasco continues to impact on the global economy, many continue to ask how this could have happened. The following video, of popular British comedians John Fortune and John Bird, seeks to provide some answers.
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The use of product warning and safety labels appears to be on the increase. How effective are they and why is it felt necessary to state the obvious? Cigarette packets have long warned that “smoking can seriously damage your health”. Hot drinks purchased from the likes of Starbucks and McDonald’s caution that “contents are hot”. Now television advertisements [...]
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Not satisfied with extended opening hours, and in some cases, 24-hour opening, 4.4 million British consumers spent a total of £84 million online, on Christmas Day 2007. They spent 269% more than 2006. Commenting on this, the Director of Sales and Marketing at independent payment services provider SecureTrading said “People shop for pleasure at Christmas, [...]
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