The euro crisis

Brinkmanship in Athens

Tough fiscal negotiations run into hard political reality

Airlines and Europe’s emissions scheme

Not free to fly

China objects to European efforts to curb its airlines’ emissions(36)

Being forced to buy permits to emit carbon dioxide could be a new source of profit for some airlines (8)
Greening the skies: The EU annoys airlines, energy companies and Canada (Jan 2012)(17)
The European Court of Justice's Advocate General has upheld the legality of including airlines in Europe’s emissions-trading scheme (Oct 2011)(6)
Europe is right to include airlines in its emissions-trading scheme (Jul 2011)(27)

Scientific publishing

The price of information

Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals(85)

Daniel Kahneman on economic decision-making

Can we ever trust instinct?

Individual trading is hazardous to people’s wealth(23)

Canada's economy

Look out below

After years of lecturing America about loose lending, Canada now must confront a bubble of its own(71)

Inequality in America

The classes drift apart

Can the rich save the American dream by preaching what they practise?(381)

Raising taxes in China

Pay and play

One year on, China’s most-hyped tax is still mostly hype(40)

Investment banking

Bonfire of the bankers

Profits down, jobs cut, strategy needed(29)

British journalism

The future of Fleet Street: Fit to print

How to clean up the unruly British press while keeping it free(15)

India's central bank

Pulling every lever

India’s central bank is one of its best institutions. It is also complicit in a government-borrowing binge(32)

Floating Facebook

A fistful of dollars

Facebook may be a good bet for investors now; but regulatory problems lie ahead(175)

Carlos Slim

Let Mexico’s moguls battle

Mexico suffers from two near-monopolies. It should let them fight each other(56)

Google's goggles

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At a loss

The dotcom darling disappoints investors

Seeing the forest for the trees

Corporate governance in China is lousy

A silent revolution

In our weekly podcast we talk about messy mobile telephone licences in India, how the private sector has boosted gay rights and the merger of Glencore and Xtrata

The war on finance

Attacking your creditors is an intriguing strategy

Offshore finance

Superyachting in the age of austerity

Coverage in full

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Come rain or shine

The outlook for the business of hedging against the elements

Survival of the fittest

Eager rivals leap in over the still-warm corpse of Hungary’s flag-carrier

Pawn sacrifice

Wegelin, the oldest Swiss private bank, is a mere pawn in a much bigger game being played between Switzerland and America over banking secrecy and tax fraud

The arrival of Free Mobile has shaken up the French mobile market (Economist Intelligence Unit)

The slow roll out of broadband is hampering e-commerce in Europe (Economist Intelligence Unit)

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