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In the meantime, just as central banks in the U.S. and euro zone have pumped cheap cash into money markets to boost liquidity in recent weeks, the Bank of England announced plans to inject almost $30 billion into the U.K. system after the credit squeeze nudged up the rates banks...
The Commission, naturally, welcomed the ruling and said it meant a super-dominant company could not unfairly influence rivals that attempted to offer more innovative and price-competitive products. Commission President José Manuel Barroso said the ruling "confirms the objectivity and the credibility" of the Commission's competition policy...
The Edsel fiasco has been autopsied many times--it is the stuff of books and business-school case studies--and yet I can't help reaching for the rib spreader one more time. Here was an early and definitive illustration of message revenge, the kind of fierce consumer blowback that...
I propose we rehabilitate the name. Fifty years from now, Edsel--derived from the Old German Adal, meaning "noble"--should bring to mind not the failed car but the decent man whose legacy fell under the huge chrome wheels of consumer culture on its first reckless laps.
To those who would call this MTV cartoon the boob tube at its most puerile, I have but one rejoinder: You said boob. This show's fart-knocking, frog-smashing anarchy alone might have put it on the list, but B&B was so much more. It was a surreal...