Coke's Olympic Spirit: War is It!
Playing on the notion that the world community exist to tear itself to pieces, Coke imagines it's own little world war.
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Your Turn: Those Haiti Cruises — The Fun Is Just Beginning
You knew the newswires were bound to publish photos like these soon enough. They involve passengers from a Celebrity Cruise ship docked Friday in Labadee, Haiti, enjoying themselves while, to the south, the country has been devastated by a massive earthquake.
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Obama Weatherproofed
Given how Obama has altered the rules of the game when it comes to political vs. cultural celebrity and the branding of the president, I'd say the Weatherproof ad (and they did license the AP photo) is a case of back-atcha.
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Suite Deal at the Capsule Hotel
At $640 a month, the so-called "capsule hotel" looks more like a human kennel, or bunks in the capitalist version of a concentration camp.
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Bankers to Obama: Talk to the Hand
The question, Mr. President, is how do you expect to call these bankers onto the carpet when you can't even get them on the carpet?
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Finally!
Deal makers from the world's largest energy firms assembled amid tight security at Iraq's Oil Ministry on Friday to compete for deals to develop some of the country's most prized oilfields.
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Giants of Wall Street
Visual note from the American Bankers Association protests (1, 2) in Chicago...
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Foreigners on Wall Street … or: (Buzz Off, Cuz) the Street "Can't Slow Down"
Really loved how the New York Stock Exchange used pop culture this week to parody all us non-rock stars stiffed by Wall Street.
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Eating Our Lunch
I'm only wondering why it took so long for the Dems to turn the laser beam -- given the gaping absence of competition -- on the fat, happy and defiant health insurance industry. Props to Move On. You go, Heather Graham!
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Volker and the White House: Not Too Big To Flail
Poor man (and poor us). Actually pitching a truly progressive idea to put the banks back in their box -- in other words, "change we can believe in" -- instead Volker sits before the President looking like he's been spat on.
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Mortgage Abuse and a Public Option, Of Sorts
Hundreds of financial counselors with the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) help homeowners process financial information during the 'Save The Dream' event October 16, 2009 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California. Thousands of people lined up for the NACA Save the Dream event for assistance with...
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From the Land of No Recession — and Money to Burn
With the holiday season on the horizon and most people desperate for the smallest sprinkle of a break, this wire image just floored me.
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This Way or the Hanway
Given our enigmatic President, how do we understand this photo op with Cigna's $12 million dollar (a year) CEO?
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Salud
If a health bill, in the form of an "ode to the Republicans," passes the Congress and all pipelines to services for illegal (and even less-than-five year legal) immigrants are cut off, does the next version of this story offer men simply keeling over in "our" spinach?
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Laid Off Today
Not that I'm dripping with compassion for laid-off MBAs cast off from the behemoths of Wall Street. What I do appreciate, however (on top of the growing prominence of the hand-made sign as a stimulus for political discourse), is the emotional symbolism here.
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A Whole New Meaning To: "Parked At The Gate"
The airline industry (or should we say, American industry) isn't what it used to be.
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