James Doran asks whether fraud is endemic in America’s business culture – or whether it is just more visible because the US authorities are better at exposing it and bringing perpetrators to justice
We may not breed multi-billion fraudsters like Bernie Madoff, says Matthew Lynn, but the small-scale, everyday deception of investors and mortgage lenders became a fact of British life during the boom years
Neil Barnett says an upsurge of state intervention to stimulate recession-hit economies – especially the former communist ones – will offer rich pickings for criminals
Edie Lush visits a private prison, and wonders whether there should be limits to the involvement of shareholder-owned businesses in the provision of such sensitive public services
China is facing its greatest economic challenge for many years, says Elliot Wilson. Journeying across the country, he finds silent factories, desolate shopping malls – and migrant workers in despair
China’s export-led boom has collapsed and thousands of factories have closed – but can infrastructure spending bolster the growth rate needed to keep social unrest at bay?
The mighty US manufacturer General Electric thought it was smart to move into finance. Now its shareholders are paying a painful price, and it needs to get back to making things
Publishing becomes a cottage industry
Dominic PrinceMaking and losing nothing but money
Martin Vander Weyer Clint WitchallsFidelity, bravery, and integrity in the workplace
Christopher SilvesterDon’t understand it? Then don’t buy it
Jasmine BirtlesPublishers must face the digital future
David CrowAdvertisement
A fatal crash for Porsche and Volkswagen?
Matthew Lynn 01/07/2009Does the Bank of England deserve more power?
Richard Northedge 24/06/2009Trying to pick winners is a losers’ game
Charlotte Moore 24/06/2009Like rabbits caught in the headlights
Scott Payton 24/06/2009
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