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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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Is America in decline?

(21 May 12)

Is America's decline inevitable? Edward Luce's well-researched new study is a 'call to thinking', says Matthew Partridge.

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Sebastian Thrun: The man making magic at Google

(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?

Dr Peter Slowe, founder of Projects Abroad

Dr Peter Slowe: Hard work and a stroke of luck

(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.

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