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Bernanke warns of threat to US prosperity
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke warned in stark terms of the long term threat to US prosperity posed by the soaring cost of unfunded entitlement programmes such as Medicare and Social Security.
Berlin’s tax shift attracts Paris
France eyes German-style VAT shift
Internet firms repond to China critics
Censorship charges produce initiative
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Bertelsmann chooses new chief
Hartmut Ostrowski succeeds Gunter Thielen
Worst storms in 15 years lash Europe
14 dead, transport services crippled
Investors hit out at Capitalia
Shareholders fall out over Geronzi
Investor seeks to widen holdings
FT interview with Jacob Wallenberg
StanChart frontrunner to buy Oyak Bank
Deal could be worth up to £1bn
Starbucks faces Forbidden City ban
Chain is an ‘affront’ to Chinese culture
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Technology transfer
European view
Why activists have to shout louder in Europe
Markets
Unease bubbling in today’s brave new financial world
Comment
Business must bend with winds of climate change

Saving the planet is the New Year’s resolution of choice in business boardrooms. The question is whether the effort will outlast the familiar January fitness fads, writes Philip Stephens