Late Night Live - 2008-10-22

Global Cities: Saskia Sassen In this weeks Slate magazine there is a new theory that the more Starbucks coffee shops in your country - the worse you will be affected by the global financial crisis. Because, the article says, "Having a significant Starbucks presence is a pretty significant indicator of the degree of connectedness to the form of highly caffeinated, free-spending capitalism that got us into this mess." Saskia Sassen first coined the term `global city´, and she is in Australia...