Friday Papers: tips and comment

Financial Times

The Lex Column

* Asian central banks - that less-developed markets are leading the global tightening cycle will naturally cause some circumspection.

* Spare capacity - US manufacturing utilisation rates have been trending southward.

* Mining taxes - Copper’s rise to fund Chilean reconstruction.

* Greece - to default or not to default: what would Socrates do?

* Hays - UK’s largest recruiter contends with an abysmal employment market.

Lombard

* Hays dims beacon of hope to redundant pen pushers - Shadow boxer rebellion - Beautifully gamed.

Insight: Exit strategies

* US policymakers would do well to heed the tale of 1930s Japan.

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