Talk:Gerald Ratner
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The 1991 recession understated and the notorious speech overstated as the reason for his company's decline?
Is there any evidence that the deep 1991 recession has been understated and his notorious speech overstated as the main reason for his company's decline? I closely followed finance at the time and he was very popular with investors in the years leading up to the decline (as stated not every jewellery shop in the company was called Ratners but even the other ones with different names all suffered badly - which assumes the public were familiar with all the brands having one holding company - which I don't think the general public did realise actually). Lots of companies in 1991 were collapsing and I think the role of his speech is overstated - a sort of urban myth really (that it was the bigger factor over the recession). e.g. The Benetton newborn baby poster advert was far more notorious at the time in publicity terms but that (Italian) company survived and thrived in fact.
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Link number 6 no longer goes to an article referencing Ratner. I did not alter it because I do not know if there is an archived version available — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:184:C300:CEB7:406F:674:1A2C:FE6 (talk) 21:54, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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