- October 1, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Oct 1st 2021
Stock crashes produce stock footage. 1929: reams of ticker tape clawed by brokers with cufflinks destined for the pawnbroker; grim faces in the bread line; Bing Crosby singing “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”. 2008: computer graphs straggling downwards; worthless American properties filmed from a moving car; Miss Kittin & the Hacker performing “Stock Exchange” with self-conscious robot flatness. Coming in now from China: images of angry investors in covid masks gathered at the offices of Evergrande, a property firm, shouting “return our money!”; gaudy theme parks with candy-pink towers mimicking the bubble bodies of jellyfish; soundtrack tbc, but possibly Jolin Tsai’s “Karma”.
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