Over the past few weeks, I've attended seminars by the renowned Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs and senior economists at UBS. Every time I pick up the paper, more and more economists are sprouting up, with diametrically opposing views on our economic direction. Why were most of them strangely silent before the credit crunch?

Betfair, the online betting exchange run by Ed Wray and Andrew Black, is reported to be considering a £1.5bn stock market flotation in the autumn.

Well done Barack Obama for putting the hard word on the banks. It's something that Gordon Brown and his sidekick Alistair Darling seem completely unable (or unprepared) to do.

A letter to Spinvox shareholders published in the press today has shone a light on the misery faced by those who invested in the company, which sold for $102.5m last month.

James Lord is the founder of London-based Love and Lord – and the wedding planner behind Gary Lineker’s recent nuptials. Here’s why “turning away clients” helped to rocket fuel his company’s growth.

Questions have been raised about the Spinvox service in a BBC investigation. Here are some of the real numbers behind Spinvox, the voice-recognition pioneer.

US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has hinted that the green shoots of economic recovery may be on the way.

Speaking at a Wall Street Journal event earlier today, the Prime Minister accused bankers of operating “outside” everyday human values and displaying “avarice”.

Sir Terence Conran has become the latest entrepreneur to make plans to sell part of his stake in his restaurant empire.

Still only 29, these two newcomers to trucking are really going places.

Keep hold of your hard earned loot with these ingenious – and 100 per cent legal – tax-slashing schemes.

Our choices if you’re preparing for an IPO, or need more column inches.

With predictions of greater flotation activity in 2002, these people could hold the key to a high share price for your business.