麻豆约拍

A look back at the main business stories of the 1990s. Martin Webber's review of the decade hears evidence that the economic merger of East and West Germany was mishandled, looks at Hong Kong under China's rule and asks if the huge gains in the US stock market and economy are a bubble waiting to burst.

(West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early on 11 November 1989 as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and West Berlin, near the Potsdamer Square. Credit: Getty Images)