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Monday, February 23, 2009 10:03 AM

So, did the recession help Slumdog Millionaire?

I am not surprised a feel-good movie won this year's Best Picture, although I do dread to think of the front pages of papers here tomorrow. A few weeks ago, I'd posted the results of some rough-and-ready analysis I had done on US recessions and...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:06 AM

11 "newsy" questions for the morning of 11 February

1. Will Nimesh Kampani come back to India from Dubai, where he is in self-imposed exile because he faces the threat of being arrested the minute he steps back on Indian soil, before the new government is sworn in at the centre? 2. Will the Andhra Pradcesh...
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Monday, February 09, 2009 6:32 PM

Will the recession help Slumdog?

Is there a correlation between a recession in the US, and the type of motion pic that wins an Oscar for best picture? To find out, I picked 15 years when the US was technically in recession, and looked at the movies that had won an Oscar for best picture...
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