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VICTORIA STATION — I am seriously proud of our friends at Nissan. We have known for a while that they were working on something big. But today’s stories on the new Nissan Leaf are exciting. “100% emission-free” (excluding electricity generation emissions). How cool is that? Faced with petrol at £5+ a gallon it’s going to fly [...] SOUTH KENSINGTON — Sox was my granddad (left, above). He died when I was about 6. He ran a business called Ingersoll-Rand out of an office in Montreal. I remember visiting the office. I walked by the building two weeks ago. It had long, dark halls, red carpets, a mail trolley and a lovely [...] CAPE COD — I am in shock. I have just emerged from a food store. There is a whole row just dedicated to marinades and BBQ sauces. The shelves of food that I might buy in London is a few rows in the very centre of a football field of “family packs” and convenience meals. I have no [...] OVER THE OLD OTTOMAN EMPIRE — I said years ago that the airport lounge has become the Walden Pond of my generation. It is for me anyway. It’s a place for respite, relaxation and forced reflection. (The two big British fellows putting away a bottle of white a 7h30 this morning might not agree.) I recognise that [...] OLD CHURCH STREET — The front of my paper says that Woolworths will be no more in a few weeks. Lay-offs are being announced in 5-figures already. And deep down, we all know that the bad news has only just begun. But we just carry on about our business. Much the same way that Londoners (myself [...] TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD — They’re all in a mess today. Citigroup was once my poster-child for what a global business could be. Now they’re borrowing more than the GDP of Oman. Standard Chartered has long been a favourite because they bank neatly in places that need neat banking – India, Africa, Asia. [...] TCR — What a grim morning. I have taken to looking at both the global markets (FTSE, DJI and NIKKEI) and the Cambridge light meter. Recently both have been equally bad. Diving and falling short from day to day. Admittedly the over-night stock market news has been pretty awful, while the [...] PICCADILLY — There’s Barclays Bank taking a beating today about investment from Abu Dhabi. The twin US presidents said to be squabbling over a deal to save General Motors. There’s the on-going HBoS and LloydsTSB merger dance. And the [...] WINDSOR — GM, the papers say today, spent $6.9B in the third quarter of this year. Of course it did. This year General Motors celebrate their 100th anniversary. They say they will be bankrupt in a few short months. The unfortunate truth of modern America is is you have no credit, you can’t get no car. It’s a serious thing. [...] Squatters in Mayfair. Circa now. LONDON — In many ways it has been a depressing old autumn. In others you think we get ourselves into these messes. And you wonder why we do that. Earlier this week there was a column in the Times that caught my attention. |
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