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På femårsdagen for Lehman Brothers kollaps, millioner af amerikanere vil se tilbage på denne frygtelige mandag og prøver at sætte tal på de skader, som fulgte efter. I mange tilfælde er det svært at sætte tal på omkostningerne - millioner af tabte arbejdspladser, knuste drømme, forspildte muligheder og fortabte hjem. Men der er et nummer, som er svært at bestride, og det er værd at huske: $18 billion. Ja, det er 18 med 12 nuller bagkant, eller $10 milliarder for hver dag siden den finansielle krise begyndte officielt om Klubmesterskab 15, 2008.

18 Billioner dollars er gælden til verdens monetaere system som det amerikanske og de seks andre store industrilande. De gjorde det for at holde systemet oven vande i 1.825 dage siden Lehman CEO Dick Fuld gik ind i witness protection program og hans neon-draperede hovedkvarter i Times Square gik i sort. Det er $18 billion vi og vores børn bliver til sidst nødt til at råde bod på gennem askese eller hyper-inflation. Og hvad fik vi så for at $18 billion i prioriteringsniveauer? Subpar vækst herhjemme, og recession i Europa og Japan.

Ja, alle, at gæld skønnes at have genereret blot $1 billioner i bruttonationalproduktet vokser over hele kloden, efter et skema Deutsche Bank chart udgivet af nul Hedge. Det er med andre ord under 18 dollars i gæld til generere $1 i vækst.

Så hvor blev de trillioner gå? Mere end $6 billion gik ind i den tyske underskud, der er vokset med dette beløb siden 2009. De fleste arbejder ved amerikanerne næsten intet af det lånte trillioner endte i deres lommer.

Kilde: Newport International Group

Fake profiles continue to be a problem on Facebook, despite the social network’s efforts to wipe them out. Free application FB Checker offers users a quick way to help determine the authenticity of profiles by examining their photos.

The app has its limitations, as it only analyzes photos, and users must have access to the photos of the accounts in question. It works by searching the Web for duplicates of the chosen photos, and warning users if those photos are discovered in multiple places.

The release of FB Checker comes about one year too late for Chick-Fil-A, which allegedly used a stock image to create a fictional Facebook profile under the name Abby Farle to defend the restaurant chain on its page.

Source: Newport International Group Reviews

Two issues in, and Dorian Grinspan already possesses a Manhattan apartment befitting the editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine.

After exiting an elevator best described as European—cramped, carpeted, as old as it smells—guests walk into a penthouse with lacquered black floors, a functioning fireplace, a zebra hide, off-white couches, and ceilings high enough to dwarf the already spare décor. Five tall windows look onto Gramercy Park, to which he has a key. “I like to answer my e-mail¬s there,” he says.

Grinspan collapses into a sofa, curling his limbs into a jagged apostrophe. In an accent that reveals his upbringing in Paris, he says he looked at 30 or so appartements earlier in the year, and took the one that happens to share a floor with Carla Sozzani, owner of the Milan luxury emporium 10 Corso Como. She bought her place from her sister Franca, Vogue Italia’s editor-in-chief, for $1.7 million earlier this year.

I wonder how Sozzani feels about the big pile of magazines on the landing between their apartments. There, her 21-year-old neighbor has stacked about 50 copies of the spring 2013 issue of Out of Order,the high-end fashion, art, and culture magazine he runs when he’s not studying for exams or trying to convince professors that, yes, he really needs to miss finals to attend Paris Fashion Week. (“My dean says it’s not really an excuse, so now I always have an ‘illness’ or something.”) Though it’s three years (and only two issues) old, it feels more established: Woody Allen agreed to be -photographed and interviewed for the debut issue, and the next one featured a Ryan McGinley profile and retrospective along with pictures of the model Arizona Muse with her young son. The second cover story was by Larry Clark, the director of Kids, about a tween skateboarder whom Clark found and photographed in Texas. The operation is professional enough that Grinspan and Rich Aybar, a stylist he knows, convinced labels like Givenchy, Lanvin, Dior, Saint Laurent, Marc Jacobs, and Stella ¬McCartney to lend clothes for photo shoots. Prada, lately, too.

Source: Newport International group fashion articles