High-Rolling Dubai Economy Comes Down To Earth

NPR by Peter Kenyon | Feb. 19, 2009 (Special Report)

For the past several years, investors, workers and consumers treated the Dubai economy like a roller coaster that only goes up. Then last fall, they suddenly found themselves looking over the edge. It was a view some foreign workers didn't stick around to contemplate. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Feb 19, 2009 - 7:36 AM PST
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    Smashing Telly | Feb. 15, 2009 (Opinion)
    Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world’s worst business idea, and there isn’t even any oil. Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where ...
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