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The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.

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All change for China's currency?
Is the loss of Chinese jobs a price worth paying to tilt its economy away from exports?
16 Aug 2010,18 mins
How to win friends and influence people
Why London city traders are taking up courses in 'ultimate violence' to protect themselves
13 Aug 2010,18 mins
An immigration auction?
Nobel laureate Gary Becker argues that the right to move country should be auctioned
12 Aug 2010,18 mins
Networking: Is it what you know or who you know?
New and old ways to meet people, from Freemasons to Facebook plus speed networking
11 Aug 2010,18 mins
Tax is good!
Why a smile is bringing in more revenue for tax collectors in Sierra Leone
10 Aug 2010,18 mins
Harvard MBAs - arrogant and immoral?
The Dean of Harvard Business School refutes charges it helped to cause the credit crisis.
09 Aug 2010,18 mins
Banks, Beaches and Brazilians
Are bankers being wise or just self-interested with the latest plans for banking reform?
06 Aug 2010,18 mins
Is the internet best for the young .... and younger?
How do young people drive innovation? And technology insights from Google Ghana's boss.
05 Aug 2010,18 mins
Blood Diamonds, Twitter - And Legal Cannabis.
What to do about alleged violence around a Zimbabwe diamond mine. Plus, pot and Twitter.
04 Aug 2010,18 mins
BP's Chairman Speaks Out
The first interview with Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg after BP's boardroom shake-up.
04 Aug 2010,18 mins
America's Stimulus
America's 787 billion dollar stimulus package, is it working? Steve Evans finds out.
03 Aug 2010,18 mins
All in the mind
Why do we spend less if we have a big note rather than smaller ones.
03 Aug 2010,18 mins
Iran: The Business of Revolution.
How did the Revoutionary Guard become a huge economic enterprise? A founder tells us.
02 Aug 2010,18 mins
Banks: Money and Morals.
Niall Ferguson on Siegmund Warburg. What could today's bankers learn from him? Morality?
30 Jul 2010,18 mins
African corruption
Can the gains of corruption be recovered once the corrupt rulers have gone?
29 Jul 2010,18 mins
Dangers in the Dust
The global asbestos industry and the campaign to ban its use on health grounds.
28 Jul 2010,18 mins
Risk of death
How can companies and governments assess life and death risks?
27 Jul 2010,18 mins
Hard Times: Is Franchising the Answer?
The dos and don'ts of a franchise. And Lucy Kellaway passes a milestone. Plus Gawker.
26 Jul 2010,18 mins
Banks Under Pressure
How local politicians who ran regional banks in Spain and Germany took the wrong risks.
23 Jul 2010,18 mins
A Fistful of Yuan
Does the weakness of China's currency really lead to the loss of American factory jobs?
22 Jul 2010,18 mins
China's new economy
Can China forge a new economic model, inventing its own hi-tech products?
21 Jul 2010,18 mins
Lobbying Battles
How much have US financial reforms been watered down by effective industry lobbying?
20 Jul 2010,18 mins
How high will unemployment go?
The head of the OECD on global joblessness. Plus bombs and business in Pakistan.
19 Jul 2010,18 mins
Mick, money and music
Mick Jagger tells the BBC that artists made big money only from 1970 to 1997. Is he right?
16 Jul 2010,18 mins
08/07/2010
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
15 Jul 2010,18 mins
07/07/2010
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
14 Jul 2010,18 mins
07/07/2010
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
13 Jul 2010,20 mins
Too gloomy?
Are we too pessimistic? Europe may have an austerity drive, but much of Asia is booming.
13 Jul 2010,18 mins
Steady state Japan?
Are Japan's economic troubles driving its young people to leave the country?
12 Jul 2010,18 mins
Shock and Ore
Steelmakers accuse miners of forcing up prices of their key raw material, iron ore.
09 Jul 2010,18 mins