Andrew Rice | Businessweek | 21 November 2012 Prices of Hirst's work have been collapsing at auction, since he staged his own $200m sale in 2008. He's in a vicious circle: Trophy-art buyers don't like losers. "Hirst screwed with his market, and it came back to bite him" Comments Robert Worth | NYRB | 19 November 2012 Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, rode two horses at once, manipulating both the US, for its aid money, and local militants, to do his dirty work. He's been forced from office, but Yemen remains a complex, unstable place Comments Robert Skidelsky | Project Syndicate | 21 November 2012 Growing inequality of wealth was a big part of what got us into this mess. And how do we get out? "Our current situation requires not a lender of last resort, but a spender of last resort, and that can only be governments" Comments Steve Denning | Forbes | 20 November 2012 Consulting firm founded by business-school guru goes bankrupt. Why? Because Monitor advised clients to focus primarily on protecting themselves from competition. Not on innovation or customer satisfaction. Bad strategy Comments Thomas Hodgkinson | Spectator | 22 November 2012 How L Ron Hubbard and a boatload of Scientologists almost took over the Greek island of Corfu in 1968. They might have succeeded, but for Hubbard's habit of throwing a few blindfolded crew members overboard each morning Comments Bilge Ebiri | Vulture | 9 November 2012 Goldfinger's plan to irradiate the US government's gold reserves with a nuclear bomb was pretty good. But Le Schiffre's scheme—in Casino Royale—to short airline stocks, then bring down a plane, has the added virtue of simplicity Comments | 
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