Elsewhere on Friday,
- It pays to fail – and how…
- Ken Lewis: stooge or saviour?
- Live-blogging Ken on Capitol Hill.
- £136m for two soccer players might just make sense.
- Wall Street’s toxic message.
- Oil prices and bond yields: some cures are even worse than the disease.
- Rortybomb’s DIY Stress Test: Final spreadsheet.
- Beware: Small investors are piling into stocks.
- G8′s weekend gabfest – a viewer’s guide .
- How important is China to world growth?
- Oil and credit bubbles
- Why the shift from Treasuries may not mean what you think it does.
- The great debate: Bottled vs tap water.
- So who is this bench-pressing narcissist?
- Further, further reading.