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Saturday 4 July 2009

 

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A fatal crash for Porsche and Volkswagen?

Matthew Lynn

1st July, 2009

Matthew Lynn unravels the three-generation feud behind the crisis that has overtaken two of the mightiest names in German car-making and threatens to ruin both of them

A fatal crash for Porsche and Volkswagen?

Does the Bank of England deserve more power?

Richard Northedge

24th June, 2009

Critics of Gordon Brown’s ‘tripartite’ regulatory structure want authority restored to Threadneedle Street, says Richard Northedge.

Trying to pick winners is a losers’ game

Charlotte Moore

24th June, 2009

Charlotte Moore says wise investors ride the market via tracker funds, rather than trying to outsmart it

Like rabbits caught in the headlights

Scott Payton

24th June, 2009

Humility, honesty and simplicity are what traumatised investors want from wealth managers, says Scott Payton

Setanta: the Gordon Brown of sports broadcasting

David Crow

17th June, 2009

David Crow says the Irish-based football channel — like the Prime Minister — looked a winner during the boom years but failed to attract fans and will struggle to survive

City Life

Eric Ellis

17th June, 2009

Morning calm in financial markets despite mad Kim’s nuclear endgame

The bruiser who fought his way back

Nick Kochan

10th June, 2009

Nick Kochan meets veteran property tycoon Gerald Ronson, who rebuilt his fortune and reputation after a stretch in Ford Open Prison for his role in the Guinness scandal

One day, the kharbouza will be mightier than the Kalashnikov

Elliot Wilson

3rd June, 2009

Afghan farmers can prosper by producing the world’s finest melons, pomegranates and grapes, says Elliot Wilson, but first they must be weaned off growing the opium poppy

The personal credit crunch

Jasmine Birtles

3rd June, 2009

Beware peddlers of dodgy debt relief

Any Other Business

Martin Vander Weyer

27th May, 2009

I don’t give a toss about my MP’s flat, but I’m bloody livid about council tax

It’s Groundhog Day for Obama’s economic team

James Doran

20th May, 2009

The president and his men keep claiming to see green shoots, says James Doran, but their failure to impose reform in the banking sector means the financial crisis is far from over

Brown’s nemesis awaits — and his name is Brian

Matthew Lynn

20th May, 2009

Matthew Lynn identifies the men who may soon declare the British government incapable of repaying its debts

New wine in old bottles

Lucinda Baring

20th May, 2009

Lucinda Baring meets Simon Berry, chairman of a 200-year-old company that’s more modern than it looks 

The British Bill Gates finds a formula for bad times

David Crow

13th May, 2009

David Crow meets Mike Lynch, the computer scientist whose firm, Autonomy, makes software that knows how humans think — and can spot when they’re committing fraud

The business of politics

David Young

13th May, 2009

As London’s mayor, Sir Alan, you’d be a mere apprentice

A new bank from a very old stable

Christopher Fildes

6th May, 2009

The family firm of Weatherbys has been at the heart of British racing since the 18th century, says Christopher Fildes, and its recent venture into the troubled field of private banking looks like a safe bet

The monetary policy committee

6th May, 2009

I’m your man for the job, Chancellor

Are electric cars really the next big step for mankind?

Elisabeth Jeffries

29th April, 2009

If internal combustion is going to be superceded by battery power, says Elisabeth Jeffries, carmakers and governments need to invest on a scale akin to the Apollo space programme

The new economy

Tony Curzon Price

29th April, 2009

Minsky’s moment has arrived

Can mercenaries defeat the Somali pirates?

Matthew Lynn

22nd April, 2009

Matthew Lynn says private armies who made money in Iraq have spotted a promising new market: protecting merchant ships in pirate-infested waters off lawless Somalia

Any Other Business

Martin Vander Weyer

22nd April, 2009

Eddie was a model public servant: that’s why Gordon was so rude to him

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