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COMMENT: Guy Hands is running a €10bn business remotely from a tax haven. No wonder it's in trouble
COMMENT: BA is losing £50m a month
COMMENT: A simple and cheap proposal to improve bank governance
COMMENT: Alistair Blair reviews Fool's Gold, Gillian Tett's new book about the credit crunch
NO FREE LUNCH: Are investors really drowning in a sea of unnecessary information?
NO FREE LUNCH: Another reason to dislike share buy-backs - directors can use them to skew earnings and trigger substantial bonus payments to themselves. Next provides a case study
NO FREE LUNCH: Buying back shares is either a sensible way of deploying surplus capital, or a cheap trick to boost earnings momentum, and a sign that a company has run out of ideas
NO FREE LUNCH: Alan Greenspan's provoking question: Should CEO pay be higher?
NO FREE LUNCH: We're all living longer, so why won't pension funds believe it? Alistair Blair explores the arcane world of the actuary...
Is now the time to plunge into cash? Only if you have real conviction