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Supporting Content

• Don't do economics? Here are four tales that will make you think again.

  

• Why a bank boss was sent coffins full of car keys

  Decisions made by bankers can have a devastating impact on people’s lives

  Duration: 1:30

• Why you need more than a week’s wages to buy condoms in Venezuela

  Making sense of when prices get out of control

  Duration: 1:22

• Why did an Essex mum want her bracelet turned into a bullet?

  When the government asked ordinary people to lend it money – and why that’s not unusual.

  Duration: 1:16

• How buying cocaine helps the government

  Our main measure for the economy is GDP and it includes the illegal drugs trade

  Duration: 1:30