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This week on FT Alphaville,

- Doomsville!

- Frustrated bulls.

- The Cold War in HFT turns Hot.

- The Virgin Atlantic CEO talks airlines.

- The details of corporate defaults.

- Some unQEasy drama.

- Quantitative tightening in China?

- The euro as a reserve currency?

- BarCap’s Bond says history’s bunk.

- Dirty, dirty miners.

- Through the keyhole…

- Battle of the fear gauges.

- The Cold War in high frequency trading.

- Mohamed El-Erian speaks.

- So who is Serge Aleynikov?

-  Erstwhile hedge fund wife must-haves.

- A Commodities correction.

- Smart bonds or just false Smailes?

- Stanford in Libya.

- It’s like Christmas Eve.

- Latvia’s lenders will even take your soul.

- Bye, bye Coffee Republic.

- The Great Goldman Black Box Heist.

- Fixed Chinese fixed-asset investment data?

- Sleepy financial watchdogs.