A year's worth of the most interesting, noteworthy, and best-written articles on all aspects of the business world.
Amid Global Turmoil, Wild Times in Trading Afghanis by Daniel Pearl, from The Wall Street Journal
Bidding War by James B. Stewart, from The New Yorker
This Little Slinky Goes to Market by Neil Irwin, from The Washington Post
Yes, We Have No Profits by Nicholas Stein, from Fortune
Corporate Veil by John R. Emschwiller and Rebecca Smith, from The Wall Street Journal
Portland Subsidiary Mirrors Enron's Rapid Rise, Fall by Jeff Manning and Gail Kinsey Hill, from The Oregonian
How Andersen Went Wrong by David Ward and Loren Steffy, from Bloomberg Markets
My Pro Forma Life by Rob Walker, from Slate
The Iceberg Wars by Wayne Curtis, from The Atlantic Monthly
The Trucker and the Professor by David Diamond, from Wired
Telecom's Pied Piper: Whose Side Was He On? by Gretchen Morgenson, from The New York Times
License to Steal by Roger Lowenstein, from SmartMoney
Turning Red Ink into Gold by Rob Kaiser, from Chicago Tribune
The Incomplete Resume? by Floyd Norris, from The New York Times
Restating the '90s by Michael J. Mandel, from BusinessWeek
Smaller by Malcolm Gladwell, from The New Yorker
Agillion's Brief, Fast Life by Lori Hawkins, from Austin American-Statesman
Is the S&P 500 Rigged? by Jason Zweig, from Money
The Rocket's Red Ink by Brian Lawson, from The Huntsville Times
A Race to the Top by Johnnie L. Roberts, from Newsweek
Executive Women and the Myth of Having It All by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, fromHarvard Business Review
The CEO and his Church by Deborah O'Neil and Jeff Harrington, from St. Petersburg Times
The Economic Strain on the Church by William C. Symonds from BusinessWeek
Nationalities of Convenience by Hal Lux, from Institutional Investor
India Calling by S. Mitra Kalita, from Newsday
Hard Time by Douglas A. Blackmon, from The Wall Street Journal
The $200 Billion Miscarriage of Justice by Roger Parloff, from Fortune
The Empire Builder by Joseph N. DiStefano, from The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine
Would You Pay $2 Million for This Franchise? by Carlye Adler, from Fortune Small Business
Double Play by Kurt Badenhausen, Cecily Fluke, Lesley Kump, and Michael K. Ozanian, from Forbes