Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Up until April this year, US banks had a nice little earner. As Freakonomics explained, big banks were able to ...

The high-frequency trading pioneered on Wall Street has come to Madison Avenue. Arbitrageurs are buying millions of online ads and reselling them for a profit in the blink of an eye. They’re ...

In law school, you learn about the principal-agent relationship: the rules that govern the responsibilities and liabilities when one party acts on behalf of another. These used to be big issues in the ...

The biggest problem with modern day media-buying is that the ad industry has been optimizing the wrong thing: impressions. Yes, the industry uses a variety of factors to identify the best impressions, ...

Anyone involved in commercial trading understands arbitrage: for example, buying oranges in Limpopo and selling them in Johannesburg at a higher price. The problem with this example is that you have ...

The developments in the call money market in December 2006 have exposed the tenuous nature of the financial markets in a possible environment of liquidity shortages. A considerably unequal ...

American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. The editor welcomes manuscripts that creatively demonstrate the connections between ethnographic ...