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Eliot Spitzer is the subject of this weekend's Lunch with the FT . In it, FT interviewer (and Spitzer biographer) Brooke Masters writes,...

Yglesias notes the Financial Times article about John Meriwether, of Long-Term Capital Management infamy , setting up his third hedge fun...

So says Martin Wolf of the Financial Times in his most recent column . Excerpt: It is the season of dollar panic. These panic-mongers are v...

The Yes Men are anti-capitalist provocateurs and pranksters (or, " culture jammers "). According to Wikipedia, their real names a...

The other day, when the local Barnes & Noble was sold out of Rolling Stone , it happened to have Monocle as its new, featured title. I...

In an op/ed in yesterday's Financial Times , Michael Hudson, an economics professor at the University of Missouri, ventriloquized the th...

From an op/ed in Friday's Financial Times by Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda ( "Africa has to find its own road to prosperity...

A humorous letter to the editor in today's Financial Times , "Buy me a massive telescope or pay the consequences" : From Dr Ch...

I'd been meaning to comment on Matt Miller's op/ed column in last Monday's Financial Times ( "Businesses must wake-up and ...

Another Goldman-related item in today's FT is this blog post by Tracy Alloway, "The Devil and www.goldmansachs666.com" , which...

Add the FT's John Gapper to Megan McCardle's crazy contingent 1 for questioning the political influence Goldman Sachs wields via it...

In the Forbes column we quoted in the previous post ( "Undertaxed America" ), Bruce Bartlett referred to OECD data in making his ...

From today's Financial Times ( "Brazil president blames white people for crisis" ): Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula d...

From John Authers's column in today's Financial Times ( "Long View: Why baby boomers will put their faith in bonds" ): US...

In yesterday's Financial Times , David Pilling wrote that many Japanese are pining for Japan's pre-industrial days, "Japan hark...

Interesting letter to the editor in Wednesday's Financial Times : Japan has been in the cold before, by the same rationale Published: M...

From this weekend's Financial Times obituary for Willem 'Pim' Kolff, written by Phil Davison ( "Dutchman who turned Nazi d...

In the comment thread of a recent post ( "Singularity U." ), commenter J.K. took the editors of the Financial Times to task for t...

Jim Rogers has mentioned his doubts about India as a destination for investment on various occasions (for example, in this unfortunately und...

John Paulson of Paulson & Co., whose hedge funds posted huge returns last year by betting against sub prime mortgages, is starting a new...