Hints and tips:
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(FT) Secrets of Japan’s rail successIn Britain, railway privatisation is deeply controversial, bringing high prices for an unreliable service on a chaotic, patchwork network that sucks in public subsidies...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...This means that unlike South Korea et al, Chinese corruption doesn’t benefit the economy; it simply feeds off it, and thereby curtails growth....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...Lib Dems in local government who face electoral disaster because of the growing unpopularity of Clegg, Cable et al at a national level....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Do you agree with the Greenspan/Bernanke prediction that inflation and long term real interest rates will start to rise globally within a couple of years as the disinflationary forces of China et al starts...
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