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Books

Aristocrats, tricksters, heroes and sinners

Christopher Silvester looks at the archetypes that have dominated Wall Street throughout the ages

Features

Keeping up with the flying Scotsman

Nick Kochan meets Jim French, chief executive of the growing British regional carrier that makes a virtue of fuel efficiency and passenger convenience

Selling the mystery of the Orient

Staying at a Mandarin Oriental hotel is more like joining a family than checking into a room, says Elliot Wilson. How does the chain sustain such astonishing loyalty among its clientele?

Investor

Worried about biofuels? Try investing in hydrogen from domestic electricity

Unintended consequences of the switch to biofuels demonstrate the truth of the ancient City adage that there is no problem so dire that Government intervention cannot make it worse.

How to become a part-time millionaire

It began in the Rocky Mountains, but now fractional ownership is all the rage in Britain, says Lucinda Baring

City Life

The credit crunch reaches the home of the rotten apple and the ‘Rolexo’ watch

Elliot Wilson

New Deal economics: lessons from Herbert Hoover

Bill Jamieson says calls for a Rooseveltian New Deal to stave off US recession are misinformed; it was FDR’s much-maligned predecessor who set the course for recovery

Bill Jamieson

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