Alvin E. Roth at Stanford and Lloyd S. Shapley at the University of California win the Nobel prize for economics. Judging by these sketches, the cuddliest winners in many years.
Photograph: Nobel
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? The great banking swindle
Tuesday’s front cover of G2 and more on the resignation of Barclays chief Bob Diamond and the Libor scandal
Photograph: Guardian
How Kipper Williams has captured the Eurozone crisis in cartoons:
Guardian cartoonist Kipper Williams is having a good eurozone crisis. He aims to capture the ‘tragi-comedy’ of the crisis, with cartoons that are ‘often silly, fanciful but a whisker away from reality’. Tackling yields, credit default swaps and eurobonds in a cartoon isn’t easy, he says, and his aim is to bring the crisis ‘back down to earth’. He has clearly thrived on the twists and turns of the Greek crisis, playing on what he describes as the ‘handy, accessible and familiar’ classical myths and legends. And he has a canny knack of anticipating events, imagining a return to the drachma last June – a fanciful idea at the time but now under serious consideration. Here are some of his best cartoons of the crisis …
There are four suspects – all of them involved in the spectacular boom that preceded what will unfortunately prove to be an even more remarkable bust.
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