Not that I am totally pro Bush or anything because I am not. I thought he lost his way but still did some things in the nations favor, but does this not go to show that everything isn’t his fault. Or is it just a coincidence that both sides of the pond are in a rescission?

The fact that Bowie hasn’t recorded an album since 2003 is not helping either.

yawn. bowie is irrelevant

I remember when Rolling Stone was the thinking man’s music mag, with intelligent articles and commentary. Now you follow up quotes about the recession with “we don’t know what any of that means.” Dumb. Dumb.

Bowie..Irrelevant? Bowie hasn’t recorded an album due to health issues. The man deserved time out. A young daughter, heart attack, a work ethic that few could match, etc., the man has earned it. Most bands worth their weight cite Bowie as a huge influence..And by most bands, I mean good ones…Fall-Out Boy, and other “flavors of the month” obviously don’t fit in this category, if that’s what you mean by relevant….

Banks did follow Bowie’s example and as a result enjoyed some golden years and were anything but heroes.

Shane,

Not necessarily because when the American economy gets into recession it takes with it the countries that have any connections to America. So maybe Bush is the one to blame after all…

BOWIE sux compared to goddess TAYLOR SWIFT!

Taylor Swift is an awful stereotype with long, flowing hair. She’s been designed in a record company’s conference room.

Rubbish. Clearly The Daily Mirror knows little to nothing about securitisation. The concept of mortgage-backed securitisation dates from the 1970s and the Bowie Bonds were not issued until 1997. Although Bowie may have been a visionary in the artistic sense, he certainly did not spark a trend in complex risk transfer/repackaging model (securitisation). The boom in securtisation occurred as a result of the advent of credit derivatives and FED de-regulaition ; to even suggest that Bowie started it all is ridiculous and discredits Davies’ tabloid-level authority on economic/financial matters. In fact, securitisation of music/film revenues never really took off and is limited to a small handful of deals.

I dont see why some of you are getting on Bowie for not recording a record since ‘03…

Hello!!!

He has a family, and a life. He shouldn’t make albums all the time because something like ‘Tonight’ will probably happen.

Hes only human, and lets not forget he had a heart attack in 2004. Give him a break.

Shane, I kinda agree, its not entirely bush’s fault its everyones fault for getting into debt themselves. Im getting tired of people blamming everything on Bush.

Uh, you are halarious.

In conclusion, my reaction after reading this article is: “WTF?”

Who knows, not me,
I never lost control,
Youre face, to face,
With the man who sold the world

Obviously they´ve got this idea from his album title “The man who sold the Word”… or even from his film by Nicholas Roeg “The man who fell to earth” when his screen character Thomas Newton brought the economy of the world down through his all prominent company, offering more new invented products then the consumer could cope with.
But I do really think that he is innocent in our present case. For usual there are various factors that trouble an existing systhem not just one influence and it can be argued that this economy crisis has it´s roots in the distant past maybe way back in the 70s.
David Bowie was always a master of illusion when he during his Ziggy years made the people believe that he was from outerspace and his mother a princess from a foreign planet… of course you can still get “confused” by that.

Well, time has proven the Mirror wasn’t that far off on the Michael Jackson article. Perhaps Bowie is to blame afterall.

When Bowie is down, everything is down!