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The power of spending

Can consumers lift the world economy out of the doldrums?

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The Secrets of Computer Code

Why computer code should a key part of every country's school curriculum.

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Follow the Money

What happens when money meets power? Justin Rowlatt explores American political lobbying.

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The Commodity Prices Boom

Is the boom in commodity prices over? Or can the likes of China keep it going?

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Euro crisis: Back to work

As Europe goes back to work after summer holidays, the eurozone crisis looms large again.

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Argentina's Nationalism

Is the world losing patience with Argentina's economic nationalism?

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Illegal timber

How Interpol chases the criminals behind illegal logging in the global timber industry.

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Food prices and slum tourism

Is the rising price of food the next big crisis for the world's poor?

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Ship scrappage and global trade

Where old ships go to die and why standardised pallets could revolutionise global trade.

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Poverty and Geography

How the geography of poverty might look in the future.

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Should the Euro Fail?

As the Dutch vote, and Germans debate the legality of bailouts, who still loves the euro?

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US election funding

The big splurge on US election campaign spending for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

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Does Fashion have legs?

We ask if fashion is recession-proof? And what a model's legs reveal about the economy.

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QE: Bernanke's big bazooka

The Fed is feeding again - $40 billion every month until the US gets back to work.

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French super-tax

Are France's super-rich voting with their feet over plans for a new 75% tax on income?

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Global fertility business

Sperm banks, egg donors and surrogate mothers - the booming global fertility business.

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Free trade v nationalism

Will a dispute over a few weather-beaten rocks derail Japan-China free trade?

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Why diversify?

The South African strike is over but does the nation need to diversify?

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Insurance: trading death

Is it ever OK to profit from someone else's death?

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Trade war?

Is Romney's tough talk on Chinese trade practices likely to help American businesses?

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Democracy and the debt crisis

Can democracy survive the debt crisis?

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Digital currencies

Can online currencies solve some of the miseries of this material world? Are they safe?

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Catalans go it alone?

Catalans are to vote whether to separate from Spain. But does it make economic sense?

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Disney's TV secrets

The most powerful woman in television Anne Sweeney, reveals her recipe for creating hit TV

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Do We Get The Banks We Deserve?

Justin Rowlatt and Kai Ryssdal put financial institutions and consumers under scrutiny.

• 55 mins

Japan's interest rates

What Japan's two decades of low interest rates teach us. Plus, does luck trump hard work?

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Foot surgery for capitalism

Caring capitalism and the fate of India's street bunion surgeons.

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Peering over the fiscal cliff

Is America about to drive its economy over the edge of a precipice?

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Jobless US graduates

How student voters in the US feel about poor job prospects and growing debt.

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Live from Las Vegas

In a special programme, What can Las Vegas tell us about America's place in the world?

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