Financial Times Lionel Barber recommends: 6/27

Lionel Barber recommends

01 America flirts with a fate like Japan's Clive Crook wrote a powerful column on the stalling of US recovery raising big, scary questions.

02 FT interview: Dmitry Medvedev - Moscow’s enigma One of the big highlights of the week was our strong interview with Dmitry Medvedev. The interview generated huge interest in Russia - and beyond. To his critics, he is the politically impotent occupant of a constitutionally omnipotent post, elected by the majority of Russia’s 109m voters but answerable to only one: his mentor, friend and former boss, prime minister Vladimir Putin.

03 Analysis: The internet bubble Richard Waters wrote a strong Big Page examining the seriousness of the apparent social media investment bubble.

04 The price of Wall Street's black box John Gapper wrote a superb column probing the giant conflicts of interest at the heart of the investment banking industry.

05 World Bank in push for food price hedging Javier Blas on the World Bank encouraging developing world companies to hedge against food price fluctuations.

06 RBS senior staff rush to sell bonus shares Sharlene Goff and Patrick Jenkins had a strong scoop with RBS staff rushing to sell bonus shares.

07 Obama wise to resist opening reserve oil taps Ed Crooks in New York - in a prescient bit of comment – said why releasing the US strategic petroleum reserve would be a bad idea.

08 America has double standards in fighting cyberwar Thomas Wright gave a masterly analysis of the double standards undermining US attempts to confront cyber attacks.

09 Madoff's yacht is the talk of Monaco Sam Jones reported from a hedge fund conference in Monaco that all anyone wanted to talk about was Bernard Madoff's yacht sale.

10 Political union cannot fix the euro Gideon Rachman tore apart the political union fantasists of Europe.