http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/04/12/the-2009-depression-and-the-geographies-of-1929/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:07:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/04/12/the-2009-depression-and-the-geographies-of-1929/comment-page-1/#comment-1643 robshields Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:46:03 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/04/12/the-2009-depression-and-the-geographies-of-1929/#comment-1643 It keeps coming up. The latest lingo is "controlled depression". I also note that there is a hopeful geography of secondary financial centres such as Toronto. With the fortunes of stockmarkets in centres such as Paris in decline, others hope to come to new prominence as old centres come to be associated with excess and with imprudence. This is especially true if new regulatory regimes covering the pricing of risk in financial instruments and in the syndication of insurance risk come into being, as a kind of IMO for the financial industry. Could one be located, possibly in a Toronto or a Sydney, elevating it into the top tier of "alpha global cities". It keeps coming up. The latest lingo is “controlled depression”. I also note that there is a hopeful geography of secondary financial centres such as Toronto. With the fortunes of stockmarkets in centres such as Paris in decline, others hope to come to new prominence as old centres come to be associated with excess and with imprudence. This is especially true if new regulatory regimes covering the pricing of risk in financial instruments and in the syndication of insurance risk come into being, as a kind of IMO for the financial industry. Could one be located, possibly in a Toronto or a Sydney, elevating it into the top tier of “alpha global cities”.

]]> http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/04/12/the-2009-depression-and-the-geographies-of-1929/comment-page-1/#comment-1505 robshields Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:58:52 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/04/12/the-2009-depression-and-the-geographies-of-1929/#comment-1505 4 February and Gordon Brown has caught up: ""It is also absolutely clear," he said in Parliament today, "that we should agree as a world on a monetary and fiscal stimulus that will take the world out of depression." 4 February and Gordon Brown has caught up: “”It is also absolutely clear,” he said in Parliament today, “that we should agree as a world on a monetary and fiscal stimulus that will take the world out of depression.”

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