Comment and analysis from the FT on Friday... Philip Stephens: A veto worthy of the Brezhnev era The other day l heard Sergei Lavrov explain Moscow's backing for Bashar al-Assad's murderous repression in Syria. Samual Brittan: Why the world economy is still spluttering away There is something not right about the world economy, or at least the older developed countries. Mohamed El-Erian: Greek deal faces the fate of its forebears After protracted negotiations, Greece's prime minister announced on Thursday an agreement on a new adjustment programme. Gary Silverman: He came, he saw and he confided In the entire history of western civilisation, there have been very few people who have become widely known by their first names. If you exclude saints, singers and Brazilian soccer stars, there's Michelangelo, Galileo, Rembrandt, Napoleon, Fidel and not that many more.In the world unto itself that is Wall Street, the list is even smaller. This entry was posted by Paul Murphy on Friday, February 10th, 2012 at 7:47 and is filed under Uncategorised.