Roberto Junguito, Mr Uribe's experienced choice as finance minister, says next year's budget will be austere.

ECONOMIST: Uribe's hour

Anwar, being finance minister, has no choice but to take some of the blame.

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There are also whispers that John Walton, a businessman who has made a habit of funding school choice, may help finance scholarships.

ECONOMIST: School vouchers

The latest survey of corporate recruiting by the Graduate Admissions Council has found that while finance still remains the number one career choice for business school graduates, manufacturing, health care and energy are where they are ending up in practice.

FORBES

Its choice is Sohei Miyashita, a former finance-ministry official, or Yoshiro Moni, a former cabinet-member.

ECONOMIST: Japan

His theories have also helped with understanding the choice between equity and debt, and corporate finance more generally.

ECONOMIST: The Nobel prize for economics

The reason any of this matters is that what is being sold is largely a small-business bank - almost two-thirds of its loans are to businesses, especially smaller ones - and right now one of the alleged great scandals of the British economy is the great shortage of choice for small businesses in the provision of vital finance.

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And the choice of Paul Kirchhof, a former judge on the Constitutional Court, for the finance portfolio may turn out to be not such a good idea.

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In retirement, the accumulated funds would finance a monthly annuity that the retiree would use to help purchase the private health insurance of his choice.

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Both Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers explain to him that the globalization and deregulation of finance that they helped to bring about when they were in government was a historical inevitability, not a policy choice.

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