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Buttonwoods notebook
Bonkers
A ruling that women cannot be charged less for their car insurance is crazy
Schumpeter's notebook
Everything will burn (2)
The continuing saga of Saif al-Islam Qaddafi's PhD thesis from the London School of Economics
Gulliver
Cheap frites
Michelin damns good-value French eateries with faint praise
Ghana's successful bond issue boosts its reputation as an investment destination (The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Fiat's big investment in Russia collapses and Ford steps in (The Economist Intelligence Unit)
South Korea suspends eight savings banks to stave off a wider financial crisis (The Economist Intelligence Unit)
Negative publicity is good for unknown firms, bad for established ones
Cash payouts to Wall Street's bankers have fallen, but are still well above the longer-term trend
The area of land planted with GM crops is growing fast, especially in developing countries
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