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Business & finance

"Offsets" in the defence industry

Guns and sugar

More governments are insisting that weapons-sellers invest in side deals to help them develop their industries. This is a bad idea 2

Military might: Global defence spending 59

Google

On display

The internet behemoth faces a new antitrust investigation in America 9

Concern about the clout of the internet giants is growing. But antitrust watchdogs should tread carefully (Dec 2012) 134

Apple and corporate tax

Cook lightly grilled

The testimony on Capitol Hill by Apple’s boss made the case for corporate tax reform in more ways than one 8

Latin American geoeconomics

A continental divide

The region is falling in behind two alternative blocks: the market-led Pacific Alliance and the more statist Mercosur 86

Schumpeter column

A hospital case

Sweden is leading the world in allowing private companies to run public institutions 52

Business in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Murky minerals

Last year miners in Congo shipped $6.7 billion-worth of copper and cobalt from the country. It would be far more if the country were better run 1

Yahoo

Rough and Tumblr

The internet giant will buy Tumblr, a popular blogging service, for $1.1 billion 15

Stockmarkets

Don’t worry, be happy

Investors think equities are the best bet in times of expansive monetary policy 14

Investment banks: Wall Street is back 110

Marketing

Less guff, more puff

Thanks to new digital tools, marketing is no longer voodoo 21

Sex and advertising: Retail therapy (Dec 2011) 28

Price fixing

Trading in oil: Libor in a barrel

Oil markets fall under the suspicion of price-fixing on a global scale 23

Japan and Abenomics

Once more with feeling

The Shinzo Abe shaking up Japan’s economy seems a different man from the one whose previous premiership was marked by nationalistic posturing. He isn’t 135