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By Robert Barr Britain’s financial regulator hit Goldman Sachs International with a 17.5 million pounds ($27 million) fine on Thursday for failing to notify U.K.

Click to view video Tim Muffett went to Stroud in Gloucestershire, which prints its own currency, to find out how it has been working. Continue

By David Brooks Why are nations like Germany and the U.S. rich? It’s not primarily because they possess natural resources — many nations have those.

By Jessica E. Vascellaro A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. “vision statement” shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question:

James E. (Jay) Hughes, Jr.  is the author of Family Wealth—Keeping It in the Family: How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual and Financial Assets as