Instead, he simply recommends that both the number and the behaviour of special advisers should be regulated by legislation.

ECONOMIST: Civil-service reform

Similar to REITs as special investment vehicles created under the Regulated Investment Company (RIC) guidelines by Congress in 1980, the BDCs are required to pay out 90% of taxable income as dividends to shareholders.

FORBES: The ABCs of BDCs: High Yields Have Their Price

This special report will ask how banks should be run and regulated so that the next time boom turns to bust the outcome will be less miserable for all concerned.

ECONOMIST: Paradise lost