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Analysis. Glass-Steagall: A Price Worth Paying? Audio, 30 minutes
The experts who say investment banks should face the consequences of their losses.
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Crossing Continents. Hard Times in Middletown, USA. Audio, 30 minutes
How Muncie in Indiana reflects the impact of the economic crisis on the US middle class.
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Budget Call. Audio, 30 minutes
Vincent Duggleby answers listeners' calls on how the Budget will affect them.
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Analysis. The Threat of Thrift. Audio, 30 minutes
Chris Bowlby asks if the concept of thrift has lost its moral attraction.
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Analysis. Keeping Us Afloat? Audio, 28 minutes
Frances Cairncross reports on the credit crunch and its effect on the world economy.
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African Perspective. Trade in Africa. Audio, 27 minutes
Examining the alternatives to the global trading systems that keep Africa poor
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The United States - Part One. Audio, 23 minutes
Why the world's biggest economy is experiencing a pensions crisis
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. Financial Wizards and Economic Prophecy. Audio, 15 minutes
Alistair Cooke considers the worldwide pandemic of economic decline.
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. Doves, Hawks, Owls and the People. Audio, 15 minutes
Alistair Cooke considers the power held by Alan Greenspan over the economic market plunge.
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. The President's economic problems. Audio, 15 minutes
Asian economic problems spread to Brazil; the limits of the president's economic power.
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. Financial crisis in Asia. Audio, 15 minutes
The danger that a financial crisis in Asia poses to the global economy.
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Global Concerns. The Simon-Ehrlich Wager. Audio, 14 minutes
The environmental debate between economist Julian Simon and biologist Paul R Ehrlich
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Fiftieth Anniversary of the Wall Street crash. Audio, 46 minutes
Looking back at the Wall Street crash of 1929.
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