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For tycoons, facts are a negotiable commodity

Tom Bower

2nd October, 2008

Investigative biographer Tom Bower explains what drives him to write about men like Tiny Rowland, Conrad Black – and his old courtroom adversary Richard Branson

For tycoons, facts are a negotiable commodity

Sweet like chocolate

Dominic Prince

2nd October, 2008

The marketing of Green & Black’s social conscience turned the brand into a global success. But, says Dominic Prince, capitalism always triumphs in the end

Good for business, good for the nation?

Tim Soutphommasane

2nd October, 2008

If supercapitalism has severed the link between capitalism and democracy, says Tim Soutphommasane, then it is we citizens who are to blame

A blagger and a phoney

Harry Bingham

2nd October, 2008

Harry Bingham finds Cityboy lacking in both style and substance

Peak book theory

George Trefgarne

2nd October, 2008

As oil fever spreads across the globe, George Trefgarne wades through the deluge of oil books flooding the market

The globalisation of whodunnits

Tim Heald

2nd September, 2008

At an international conference for crime writers, Tim Heald attempts to unravel the financial mysteries of foreign crime fiction

Business as usual

Christopher Silvester

2nd September, 2008

Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine
Diarmuid Jeffreys
Bloomsbury £20, 416 pages

Don’t bite the invisible hand

Clint Witchalls

2nd September, 2008

Clint Witchalls finds an unusual novel that sugar-coats complex economic theories on pricing

The dragon and the hypnotist

Jasmine Birtles

2nd September, 2008

Jasmine Birtles finds two very different television spin-offs deliver the same, surprisingly simple message

The best of times, the worst of times

Kevin O'Flynn

2nd September, 2008

From everyday bribery and corruption to gold-plated Porsches, Kevin O’Flynn says investing in Russia can be a tricky business

The poetry of money

Janice Warman

1st July, 2008

If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money, said Robert Graves in a speech to the London School of Economics in 1963.

Go for gold

Tim Price

1st July, 2008

The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing by John Katz and Frank Holmes

Aristocrats, tricksters, heroes and sinners

Christopher Silvester

1st July, 2008

Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace by Steve Fraser

Fishy derring-do at Loch Fyne

Katie Grant

1st July, 2008

Katie Grant is inspired by a touching tale of struggle and triumph in a success story built on soggy foundations

Diary of a Northern Rock nobody

Martin Vander Weyer

1st July, 2008

The fall of Northern Rock: An insider’s story of Britain’s biggest banking disaster by Brian Walters

Getting branding back on track

Clint Witchalls

3rd June, 2008

Clint Witchalls wades through the marketing mojo bombarding consumers

Why don’t we just stop writing about these monsters?

Martin Vander Weyer

3rd June, 2008

Martin Vander Weyer, who has written extensively about larger-than-life City personalities, compares notes with William D. Cohan, author of The Last Tycoons, an award-winning exposé of the giant egos at Lazard Frères in New York