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The spread of consumer finance such as car loans and home mortgages could be affected as a result of the expected shakeout, and some commercial projects are already being hit. Two leading developers, Sergei Polonsky - who is building Europe's tallest skyscraper in Moscow - and St. Petersburg - based Artur Kirilenko...
Economic gloom is the trademark of most newspaper headlines as of late. Oil prices rise and fall, but bear bad omens either way. The housing market continues to deflate. And in the midst of it all, a number of Wall Street’s most venerable institutions are disintegrating. No...
USAGE: "In the United Arab Emirates, David Fisher, an Israeli-born Italian architect, is planning an 80-story rotating skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower. Some call it sunflower architecture."
While many of Polumbaum's interviewees have worked or traveled abroad and have thus been able to compare different media sectors for themselves, there is no presumption that Chinese journalists have it worse. Censorship is everywhere, many say, pointing out that the activities of U.S. media in Iraq can be...
Still, property developers feeling the pain would do well to take the long view. "We've seen falls of this scale many times before," says Davidson, recalling "big crashes in [City] rents in the early '90s and around the turn of this decade." Further proof of property's fast-changing...