Golden Shell Games by Addison Wiggin originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.

FORBES: Gold ETFs And The Manipulation Game

Yakitori skewers of chicken skin and (especially) tail are succulent little delivery devices for fat. (Yakitori okra is worth trying, too.) Several dishes feature fantastically tender pork cutlet under a perfectly golden shell of panko bread crumbs.

NEWYORKER: Ootoya

At the Beijing Auto Show in June, BYD's cars were an afterthought to its circa-1950s display booth, which featured two models wearing golden, shell-shaped bikini tops and matching mermaid tailfins.

FORBES: Thanks, Now Move Over

"We are now in the position where we own 30% to 40% of the discovered reserve base in the deepwater Gulf, " says BP's Golden, compared with 25% for Shell.

FORBES: Going deep

Having proved Golden's hunch correct, BP then leapfrogged Shell and its other competitors and went farther out into the Gulf, into zones where conventional seismic analysis couldn't actually detect whether there was oil in the ground.

FORBES: Going deep