Return of Zombies from Kate Burgess and Paul Krugman
FT: “Ranks of UK zombie companies shrink” by Kate Burgess reporting on R3 data: The so-called zombie companies that can do little more than pay the interest on their loans have sunk to new lows… The...
View ArticleKrugman: confidence fairy zombie?
Paul Krugman uses “zombie” often on his NYTimes blog, “The Conscience of a Liberal“, today with post titled: “The Zombie Confidence Fairy“. Krugman discusses the zombie idea (persistent falsehood) of a...
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NYTIMES: “Charlie Brown and the Gang Take Shape” by Dana Jennings reviews “Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955”, which “book reprints in full color the first four years of Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts”...
View Articleis AG Schneiderman a zombie?
NYTimes: “A New Effort in Albany to Put Lenders in Charge of Abandoned Properties” by Susanne Craig: thousands of so-called zombie homes scattered throughout financially hard-hit areas of New York...
View Articlezombie Frozen bacon poop
This ZombieLaw ranting post, a bit all over the place because there’s a bunch of “zombie” references worth noting today. Let’s start with CBSNews: “Nina In New York: Wake Up And Smell The Bacon, For...
View ArticleBurlesque Zombie Feminism Like a Boss
Las Vegas Weekly: “A new wave of burlesque is heating up Las Vegas (with zombies! and fire!)” by Jacob Coakley: Katie Kenner is the director of Twisted Cherry Burlesque, a monthly burlesque revue that...
View ArticleGail Collins thinking of viral zombies
Nytimes: “The Season of the Twitch” by Gail Collins: The ad went viral, which is, of course, every candidate’s dream. Going viral doesn’t always work. (We are thinking of the guy who attempted to...
View ArticlePaul Krugman’s got zombie skills
NYTimes: “The Skills Zombie” by Paul Krugman. a zombie doctrine — that is, a doctrine that should be dead by now, having been repeatedly refuted by evidence, but just keeps on shambling along. Ok so it...
View ArticleMaureen Dowd GoT zombie brain
Maureen Dowd: “Bring Me My Dragons!” is about Game of Thrones (press for season premiere). Dowd had not watched the show, I had no interest in the murky male world of orcs, elves, hobbits, goblins and...
View ArticleSpanish zombie companies
Nytimes: “Protecting Spain’s Small Victories” By Hugo Dixon of Reuters: The government has also passed a reform that makes it easier to restructure corporate debts by, for example, converting them into...
View Articleclass action zombie armies
Forbes: “General Mills Consumers Give Up Rights To What, Exactly?” by Daniel Fisher is a response to NYTimes article by Stephanie Strom about click-wrap agreements and “cereal class action”. Fisher...
View Article“Zombie arguments” from Paul Krugman and Aaron Carroll
Professor and Columnist Paul Krugman posted in NYTimes on June 17, “The Wonking Dead“: Aaron Carroll helpfully reminds us that all of the arguments surfacing here are zombies – arguments that should...
View ArticleTea Party “love a zombie metaphor”
NYTimes: “Mississippi Goes for the Money: How Did Brett Favre Help Thad Cochran in His Senate Race?” by Gail Collins: These days, when a Republican politician gets into primary trouble, his first move...
View ArticleHallowee lectureZ
It’s Halloween week and in case you forgot, here’s three upcoming zombie academic lectures. Samuel Merritt University: “SMU Hosts Zombie Health Symposium” and “Zombie Health Symposium 2014 – Thursday,...
View ArticleThis hiatus has gone on long enough – ZombieLaw, it’s baaaaack!
Hi zombies. I wasn’t sure what it was going to take for me to resume this odd hobby. When I left for the new years holiday I had been intending a much shorter hiatus, but instead when I returned I...
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