Why `synergy' is a red herring
Try this experiment. Take a tennis ball and toss it from one hand to the other. Easy, isn't it? Quite. Now take two balls, and try doing the same.

Bharat Shah and his diamonds
Ever since the arrest of film financier and diamond trader Bharat Shah, both fact or fiction are good enough to send entertainment stocks plummeting.

Public problems, private solutions
Most will agree with the proposition that a government exists because it is the only institutional mechanism which can provide the citizens with a number of goods and services, the so called public goods, that are important for their well-being.