Tired traditions

Aaaaaaaargh – sprouts! Now I love Christmas as much as the next hyper-active 10-year-old but just keep me away from those small, sour, green beasts of doom. Then there is turkey, that most tasteless of meat, and all the thoughtless, tacky, useless presents (admittedly mainly from me).

On air: Should Dubai be helped out of its financial crisis?

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Dubai, or to be exact the state-owned Dubai World, wants to delay repaying some of its debt. This comes after story after story has detailed how projects there have not been hitting targets. If you’re a golf fan you’ll be aware the final tournament of ‘The Road To Dubai’ was played on a course where some building weren’t completed. And of course there are examples on a far greater scale.

Now, you only have to look at the markets for evidence of how worried the money men are about this. So what to do?

On air: Your questions about Dubai

We’re aware that you’ve a lot of questions about what could happen next in Dubai and what it’ll mean for the world’s economy. We’ll have a number of experts ready to give you some answers. Please post your queries here.

Is Dubai’s culture of excess too good to last?

South Korea,  India,  Canada, Mexico – you’ll struggle to find a market that hasn’t woken up to the here we go again syndrome today. 

A leading state-owned firm in Dubai has announced  it will be delaying debt repayments for six months, plunging markets into mayhem.

Are we about to embark on global financial crisis  ’round two’? And after decades of lavish living, is it time to say bye bye to Dubai?