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Do general strikes achieve anything?
What will Greece's 20th general strike since the eurozone crisis began actually achieve?
18 Oct 2012,18 mins
Oil price setting
After Libor rate-rigging, could the setting of oil prices also be open to manipulation?
17 Oct 2012,18 mins
Colombia's Peace Dividend?
Could peace talks help Colombia become a new tiger economy?
16 Oct 2012,18 mins
CEO severe stress
The CEO who stripped to his underpants in a boardroom due to severe stress
15 Oct 2012,18 mins
USA's climate change
We go into the mighty Hoover Dam to explore the challenges of the US's changing climate.
12 Oct 2012,18 mins
India's Jobless Graduates
Is a college education worth the high cost and hard work, if you can't get a job?
11 Oct 2012,18 mins
The energy revolution
How new supplies and changing demand is transforming the energy industry.
10 Oct 2012,18 mins
Growing pains
Has the "great recession" permanently damaged the world's potential for growth?
09 Oct 2012,18 mins
The City of London
Four years on from the financial crisis, what's happened to the City of London?
08 Oct 2012,18 mins
Live from Las Vegas
In a special programme, What can Las Vegas tell us about America's place in the world?
05 Oct 2012,18 mins
Jobless US graduates
How student voters in the US feel about poor job prospects and growing debt.
04 Oct 2012,18 mins
Peering over the fiscal cliff
Is America about to drive its economy over the edge of a precipice?
03 Oct 2012,18 mins
Foot surgery for capitalism
Caring capitalism and the fate of India's street bunion surgeons.
02 Oct 2012,18 mins
Japan's interest rates
What Japan's two decades of low interest rates teach us. Plus, does luck trump hard work?
01 Oct 2012,18 mins
Do We Get The Banks We Deserve?
Justin Rowlatt and Kai Ryssdal put financial institutions and consumers under scrutiny.
29 Sep 2012,55 mins
Disney's TV secrets
The most powerful woman in television Anne Sweeney, reveals her recipe for creating hit TV
28 Sep 2012,18 mins
Catalans go it alone?
Catalans are to vote whether to separate from Spain. But does it make economic sense?
27 Sep 2012,18 mins
Digital currencies
Can online currencies solve some of the miseries of this material world? Are they safe?
26 Sep 2012,18 mins
Democracy and the debt crisis
Can democracy survive the debt crisis?
25 Sep 2012,18 mins
Trade war?
Is Romney's tough talk on Chinese trade practices likely to help American businesses?
24 Sep 2012,18 mins
Insurance: trading death
Is it ever OK to profit from someone else's death?
21 Sep 2012,18 mins
Why diversify?
The South African strike is over but does the nation need to diversify?
20 Sep 2012,18 mins
Free trade v nationalism
Will a dispute over a few weather-beaten rocks derail Japan-China free trade?
19 Sep 2012,18 mins
Global fertility business
Sperm banks, egg donors and surrogate mothers - the booming global fertility business.
18 Sep 2012,18 mins
French super-tax
Are France's super-rich voting with their feet over plans for a new 75% tax on income?
17 Sep 2012,18 mins
QE: Bernanke's big bazooka
The Fed is feeding again - $40 billion every month until the US gets back to work.
14 Sep 2012,18 mins
Does Fashion have legs?
We ask if fashion is recession-proof? And what a model's legs reveal about the economy.
13 Sep 2012,18 mins
US election funding
The big splurge on US election campaign spending for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
12 Sep 2012,18 mins
Should the Euro Fail?
As the Dutch vote, and Germans debate the legality of bailouts, who still loves the euro?
11 Sep 2012,18 mins
Poverty and Geography
How the geography of poverty might look in the future.
10 Sep 2012,18 mins