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BlackRock and Larry Fink are under media scrutiny from various angles.
The FT locates a wise Swabian housewife and asks her about the financial crisis. Read more
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Woodrow Wilson was the world’s first Twitterer, says Nick Carr.
David Carr feels the New York Times will survive. Read more
Quotes of the day
“I’m going to need to learn about merchant banking again and they are going to have to learn to have some old idiot like me who actually asks what they are doing.”
- Johann Rupert, the 58-year-old South African billionaire who has invested in the former Lehman Brothers private equity business. Read more
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Sony’s PlayStation 3 is not doing very well at all.
Bernard Madoff’s alleged “giant Ponzi scheme”. Read more
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The wiser part of John Thain’s head prevails.
The Mumbai terrorists used VoIP phones. Read more
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Trustworthy news is for the upper-middle class.
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Blu-Ray: “Everything is coming together. The only dark cloud is the economy.”
Reader’s Digest: “We’re completely uncool and we embrace that.” Read more
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Murdoch keeps faith with Ailes.
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John Gapper is an associate editor and the chief business commentator of the FT.
He has worked for the FT since 1987, covering labour relations, banking and the media. He is co-author, with Nicholas Denton, of 'All That Glitters', an account of the collapse of Barings in 1995.
Andrew Hill is an associate editor and the management editor of the FT. He is a former City editor, financial editor, comment and analysis editor, New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.
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