How To Sell Credit - Barclaycard's Waiting Room

John Titor says that in the future people don't much like us. They look down on us for our superficial and self centered ways.

If the only thing standing between you and your dreams is a credit card you might be missing the big picture. I notice they're also peddling electronic cash to children through Facebook ads. Practical on the surface of things but a real danger if we've not studied our William Pawelec.

The Big Short (2015) ‐ Paramount Pictures

Two people separately mentioned this movie in the last few days so I downloaded it this evening. It's very good and brings to life Collateralized Debt Obligations, Sub Prime Mortgages and Credit Default Swaps to life in way I didn't think possible 8 years after the last daylight robbery paid for by the people, who by and large haven't even figured out that the printers of money are private concerns.

There's a scene in the movie where the protagonists attend a securitization conference in Vegas and in the background there's Dolly Parton on a screen with a Monarch Butterfly fluttering around her. The story of reality is a lot deeper than just this movie which is excellent.

Oishi - It's A Question Of Taste

Let me think. First we have an online mall. It is promoting a new consumption model that encourages more material consumption using credit and borrowing initiatives. These are named after Western naked short selling through the financial markets by portraying the idea of three women taking their clothes off. What's not to like about that?

Sometimes I think we did a smashing job of converting China and frankly the disrobing is the least offensive thing.

Is @AlecBaldwin A Two Faced Credit Card Pimp?

I quite like Alec Baldwin's interaction with people on Twitter but I find his support for Occupy Wall Street followed by his subsequent ill informed and patronising advice at odds with his credit card commercials pimping.

Advertising on the London Underground

I'm not very fond of the Underground because it's overly congested, can get hot and is a little claustrophobic. There is one upside that doesn't often get mentioned and that is the advertising. The poster advertising including the cross tracks are often unseen above ground and don't seem to get mentioned all that much. I love the simplicity of this execution advertising the V&A's Ice Station Antarctica Exhibition.

I also really like this campaign for a new type of Barclay Card that is a credit, debit and Oyster Card which is a cashless card first inspired in places like Hong Kong and Singapore.

The £800 million launch of the St. Pancras Station refit with its new Eurostar trains cutting the time from London to Brussells down to 1 hour and 50 minutes is also being advertised above ground.