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Category Archives: recession
Could French economic happiness be infectious?
The champagne corks weren’t quite popping but the French and German finance ministries were no doubt pleased with themselves last week.
The news that both economies have emerged from recession was welcome, leading French economy minister Christine Lagarde to comment “These are obviously very positive numbers, which have surprised us and made us quite happy.”
The [...]
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Chinese New Year fit for the credit crunch?
Yesterday saw the start of the Chinese New Year, celebrating the Year of the Ox. The festival begins on the first day of the first lunar month of the Chinese Calendar. This calendar far pre-dates the internationally used Gregorian calendar, with evidence of its use as far back as the second millennium BC.
Naturally London will [...]
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Is Arabic translation of credit crunch a spending spree?
I’ve mentioned before that I am a big fan of Charlton Athletic football club and the past few weeks have been a real rollercoaster for us fans. For a while I thought my separate worlds of football and Arabic translation would be brought together as Dubai based Zabeel Investments made an “indicative offer” to buy [...]
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Strategy for surviving recession?
It seems like every day there are new headlines of doom, gloom and forthcoming recession. Whilst the American recession has perhaps had less of an impact on the global economy than it would have done in the past, the overwhelming evidence of global recession casts a grey cloud over small businesses.
Earlier this month, an OECD [...]
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Translation Helps Business Survive Recession: new article