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Tyler Brûlé is opening a shop.

Adolf Merckle lost a lot of money by shorting Volkswagen.

Twilight has a lot of teenage girl fans.

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Megan McArdle poses a very good question.

Kathleen Parker quotes me approvingly, of which I approve.

Oil refineries, the market’s biggest bottleneck, go east.

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Hank Paulson comes to his senses about buying mortgage securities.

John Whitehead thinks this is worse than the Great Depression.

Yes, the Dubai residential property boom is over.

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Lobsters are plentiful, herring are scarce.

Jim Surowiecki argues back on Lehman Brothers cogently, damn him.

Circuit City raises enough money (a $1.1bn debtor-in-possession loan) to go bankrupt.

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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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