Results tagged “theeconomist”

For anyone turned on by lists, then have we got a list for you! The Economist's Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has published the EIU Worldwide Cost of Living for 2007. What's the WCOL, you say?

The Worldwide Cost of Living survey enables human resources line managers and expatriate executives to compare the cost of living in over 130 cities in nearly 90 countries and calculate fair compensation policies for relocating employees.

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In a stroke of brilliance, the NY Post decided to test new State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli on economics and elements of his new job. Basically, the Post ambushed DiNapoli at Great Neck's Plaza Cafe on Saturday (the Post writes that it "confronted" him). In spite of saying "I'm not up for a quiz," DiNapoli gamely tried to answer some questions:

... [He] feeble crack at five Economics 101 questions asked of him, getting them flat-out wrong, hedging on them or fidgeting uncomfortably while he fished for an answer.

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Breaking Beverage News: Rap star, entrepreneur and Beyonce's boyfriend Jay-Z is boycotting Cristal champagne after some remarks Cristal management made about the rap world. Jay-Z is going to stop drinking Cristal in his personal life (note to all musicians about to appear on Cribs - get the Cristal out of the fridge!) and remove it from the bars of all 40/40 club locations. Here's a summary of what caused the boycott from the AP:

In a special summer issue of The Economist magazine, Frederic Rouzaud, managing director of Louis Roederer, said the company viewed the affection for his company's champagne from rappers and their fans with "curiosity and serenity."

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Loretta Buckley, Law Student

Perhaps we're still whiffing the Jayson Blair scandal or the impending consolidation of the media industry, or maybe Gothamist is just paranoid (as usual), but lately we've been hypersensitive to the appearence of journalistic impropriety. Recently, while reading Discover Magazine's slavish paean to the grotesque MaxiMog, we were appalled by the conflict of interest. The MaxiMog was designed and built by one Bran Ferren, formerly of Disney's Imagineering. However nowhere in the praise heaped on Ferren and his kooky car could you find the fact that Discover is also owned by the Disney corporation. The Economist, on the other hand, is one of our favorite magazines. Aside from being foreign, and therefore inherently superior, they scrupulously note every time their parent company, Pearson, or their sister publications are mentioned. For example, this article would seem to suggest that editorial independence is not yet dead (or at least wasn't in 1998).