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AND now for something completely different : The best drivers were made legends by poets who sung their exploits and graffiti artists who scrawled crude renderings of their faces on walls around the Mediterranean. They could also be made extraordinarily...

European equities markets were up Friday on employment news from the United States, although that data was mixed, showing that private employers added 67,000 jobs in August, more than expected, but that the US economy overall lost 54,000 jobs for a second...

Apparently my book came out in Mandarin about a year ago and I didn’t even know it. Are those gold coins on the front? http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010453791

Partly thanks to Ed Balls , the debate over the scale and timing of spending cuts in the UK is still very much alive. Next week I'll be taking a look at the arguments in detail, as part of the BBC's special season on the spending review. But in...

All good things (and summers) come to an end - we're starting back up at Unknown University. For the first time in four years, I get to teach the undergraduate introductory course. For many faculty, this would be a bad thing (a lot of my colleagues...

Well, that didn’t last long, now did it. Two consecutive quarters of minimal GDP growth seem to have exhausted the forces of a more than fragile Spanish economy. All the post-June data we are seeing suggests the economy has now turned the corner...

Och-Ziff Assets Och-Ziff Fund Assets Rise by $200 Million in August Hedge fund giant Och-Ziff's fund assets increased by $200 million in August 2010. INvestors deposits of $200 million brought up the firm's total assets under management to $26...