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It's not the crisis for everyone!




by Christophe » 10/10/08, 10:40

The cruise boom
A report by Michel Guétienne and Frédéric Bohn

More and more French people are attracted to cruises: this year, nearly 300 will embark on one of these floating hotels. Formerly reserved for an elite, this type of travel is democratizing at high speed. To attract a younger and more family-oriented clientele, major cruise lines are banking on the "holiday club" atmosphere, increasing the number of leisure activities on board and offering increasingly attractive prices. On board, the traditions in force on the liners of yesteryear have gradually given way to the notion of mass tourism. For a week, a team of Special Envoy traveled the Mediterranean on one of these sea giants. Through the portrait of some of the 000 passengers on board, we wanted to understand what pushes these French people to take to the sea.


See here: http://envoye-special.france2.fr/index- ... rticle=725
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by Bibiphoque » 10/10/08, 11:17

Hello,
And without forgetting this American billionaire (whose name I forget) who benefits from the current crisis to buy a max of boxes whose assets represent more than their current stock market value!
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by Gregconstruct » 10/10/08, 12:00

I get the impression that a lot of people are losing their pedals a bit and are saying that they will take advantage of it before it is no longer possible ...

They fall in the sign of the pub!
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by bham » 28/11/08, 14:31

To meditate :
http://www.boursorama.com/infos/actuali ... ws=6138895

"For everyone there is a crisis, but we have the Millionaires' Fair": .... "In Russia, the Hummer road is promising", rejoices the sales manager, Artem Frolov: "A lot of women buy it to gain respect ", driving these powerful 4x4s very visible in the streets of Moscow, where the speed limit seems far from being a priority.

among others.
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by Christophe » 28/11/08, 14:37

Bah not the USSR ca does not count!

A) Oligarchs and Russian billionaires cheated to get there! They looted from A to Z the most powerful country in the world! The USSR was much more powerful militarily than the US ... for example ...

B) it was a country under exploited (under developed?) In certain regions during the Soviet period: it was therefore easy, with modern technology and in a free market to quickly create huge wealth in a very short time!

The majority of the people are still as poor (or more) than in the USSR era ...

ps: rahh these punters ... always to believe that the grass is greener elsewhere!
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by bham » 28/11/08, 15:15

Christophe wrote:ps: rahh these punters ... always to believe that the grass is greener elsewhere!

Is not one of the particularisms of the man just to believe that? hence a materialism and a consumerism that works thunder.
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