Since the Bank of England reduced its base lending rate to an historically low 2% on Thursday UK media commentary has been dominated by a ‘will they, won’t they’ analysis of which banks are planning to pass on the full value of the 1% cut to their mortgage customers and which are not. At the [...]
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Money (that’s what I want)…
Posted in Banking, Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Hedge Funds, Media, Public Relations, tagged Banking, Edelman, Mortgage rates on 7 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do You Know Where You’re Going To…..
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Politics, Public Relations, tagged British Chambers of Commerce, David Frost, Economy, Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, John Waples, Liberal Democrats, Sunday Times, Vince Cable on 4 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
OK – first some self-justification. I realise that this song doesn’t exactly enhance my credentials as the wild man of PR. Unfortunately it’s the most appropriate one I could come up with in what is a necessarily short space of time and, having set out the parameters for titles myself – most importantly that they [...]
Down down…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Markets, Politics, tagged Bank of England, Economy, interest rates, Public Relations, Status Quo, Susan Eastoe on 6 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is the Governor of the Bank of England sending a signal to the banks with today’s shock 1.5% reduction in interest rates? This is the view of my colleague Susan Eastoe, Edelman’s Deputy CEO and Public Affairs guru who says that in dropping base rates to their lowest point since 1955 it looks like Mervyn [...]
Diamonds (and PR gaffes) are forever…
Posted in Edelman, Reputation, tagged Edelman, Gerald Ratner, Henley Business School, Jo Sheldon, John Madejski, Reputation on 10 October 2008 | 4 Comments »
Breaking away – if it’s possible – from the collapsing world economy, an interesting flyer lands on my desk for the 2008 Reputation Conference at the John Madejski Centre for Reputation at Henley Business School. The keynote speaker is one Gerald Ratner who certainly knows a thing or two about demolishing reputations – but is he [...]
