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- John Kay creates analogy between investors and tailgators; proceeds to beat metaphor to death.

- The New York Times to imitate the Financial Times' gated system; Felix Salmon analyzes

- Zimbabwe becomes more mobile, faces dollarization difficulties and even, um, deflation

- Why cable television is bundled. (But just because consumers prefer flat rates, it doesn't necessarily make them a good idea for most people - ditto with gym memberships).

- "If you find yourself in a suddenly resource-rich emerging market and you're interested in knowing whether revenues are being put to the proper uses, just go find the houses of the local government leaders."

- More evidence that Britain is drinking more, binging more, and being less social about it (as if we needed any)