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Two centuries of monetary and fiscal policy and banking assessed in Christopher Whalen's "Inflated" (4)

• • "The Hellhound of Wall Street", on Ferdinand Pecora's investigation of the 1929 crash
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• • Our reviews of the best books on the financial crisis and its aftermath
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More companies are making use of legal-outsourcing firms, swapping expensive American lawyers for cheap Indian ones (7)

• • For some, a career in the law is no longer a path to riches (Nov 2010)
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• • The growth of India's legal-outsourcing firms (Jun 2010)
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• • Topic page: Legal services

Ronald Coase, the author of “The Nature of the Firm” (1937), turns 100 on December 29th (16)

• • Oliver Williamson shares the 2009 economics Nobel for his work on the theory of the firm (Oct 2009)
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• • The joint-stock company looks surprisingly durable. But pressure on it is increasing (Dec 2001)

Who will mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs?

• • London's high-tech start-ups
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• • Start-ups will help restart America’s economy
• • Israeli entrepreneurs: MBAs are for wusses (Aug 2010)
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Iceland let its banks fail, was tough with creditors and kind to itself. Ireland may wish it had done the same (18)

• • Europe’s banks are built for a single currency zone. What happens if parts of it default or leave?
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• • Europe draws up plans to let banks fail—just as it bails out Ireland’s lenders
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Like its founder, Mediaset is tacky, unfairly advantaged—and resilient (48)

• • Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset is in open war with Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia (Apr 2010)
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• • Special report: Television is adapting better to technological change than any other media business (Apr 2010)
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Some tech start-ups look over-valued (23)

• • Marc Simoncini, a serial online entrepreneur, shows France how to love, and how to fail
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• • How long will Google's magic last?
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The epic Madoff fraud continues to haunt Wall Street (10)

• • A government investigation shakes the hedge-fund industry (Nov 2010)
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• • The Galleon affair: The largest insider-trading case in decades snares a giant hedge fund (Oct 2009)
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• • A sidekick's testimony will help prosecutors understand the Madoff fraud (Aug 2009)
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• • Shocking allegations against Stanford Group (Feb 2009)
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Reform of China’s financial sector has slowed, a new book argues. This might prove dangerous (27)

• • Chinese firms' sales are soaring, but where are the profits?
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• • Worries about rising inflation in China and emerging Asia
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