Matthew Teague | Businessweek | 25 October 2012 The rich have money troubles too, sometimes. Or maybe they're just not as rich as they appeared. In which case, if you're a bank, you send for Ken Cage. He recovers yachts, personal jets and racehorses from the overleveraged Comments David Barboza | NYT | 25 October 2012 China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, presents himself as a modest man who has never used high office to pursue personal financial gain. But members of his immediate family have amassed vast wealth, as this investigation shows Comments Matthew Green | Reuters | 25 October 2012 Well-told, dispiriting despatch from Pakistan, where a Sunni Muslim extremist group is, with apparent impunity, murdering members of a Shia minority. "Such otherness was not an issue in Pakistan in the past. Now, it is a death mark" Comments Benjamin Phelan | Slate | 23 October 2012 How milk helped propel Western civilisation. Genetic mutation took hold in what's now Turkey and we rapidly became, "in the coinage of one paleoanthropologist, 'mampires' who feed on the fluids of other animals". Why did it happen? Comments Christopher Ketcham | Harper's | 19 October 2012 History of the world's most popular board game, plus reportage from a tournament. Started life as a public-domain game called The Landlord's Game, 30 years before Charles Darrow copyrighted it, sold it to Parker Bros, and got rich Comments Michael Hobbes | Billfold | 23 October 2012 "I needed work that was part-time, well paid, required little preparation and no professional skills," said Henrik. "What else is there?" And the clients? Mostly they weren't weirdos, just overweight older men Comments | 
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