These are the patients who are in the top one per cent of costs because they were in a car crash that resulted in a hundred thousand dollars in surgery and intensive-care expenses, or had a cancer requiring seven thousand dollars a week for chemo and radiation.

NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

If it costs a lot to film a real actor in a car crash--or if you want to create an effect a human couldn't do safely--use a computerized actor .

FORBES

Edward Parker of Fitch says that a Baltic crash might mean that some countries have to follow the example of Portugal, which has been stuck with high costs and low growth after an unsustainable boom.

ECONOMIST: Eastern Europe's economies