People in the news
From entrepreneurs making a million from the most unlikely ideas, to billionaire tycoons with global empires, to plain old fraudsters, the financial world has plenty of colourful characters. Here are some of their stories.
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(21 May 12)
Is America's decline inevitable? Edward Luce's well-researched new study is a 'call to thinking', says Matthew Partridge.
(21 May 12)
Sebastian Thrun burns with a child-like enthusiasm for turning the wildest of dreams into reality. But just what is the German-born inventor working on behind the closed doors of Google X?
(21 May 12)
When Dr Peter Slowe's students asked him how to visit the former Soviet Union, he knew he was on to an exciting business opportunity.