Elsewhere on Friday:
- The lessons of Weimar 1923
- The reverse Black Swan
- The financial crisis: An inside view
- Fund management? You’re — literally – better off tossing a coin
- Mark-to-messy accounting change
- The mark-to-market myth
- The G20 has lost the plot
- Hedge fund contagion — who’s more susceptible?
- Causes of the oil shock of 2007-08
- Measuring the value-added of hedge funds
- Weighing up the AIG conspiracy theories
- The trouble with imbalance fetishists
- The end of art as an asset class
- Being Hank Paulson
- Japan: the incredible shrinking economy
- 10 great ways to eat gold
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