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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.

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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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The City of London

Four years on from the financial crisis, what's happened to the City of London?

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Growing pains

Has the "great recession" permanently damaged the world's potential for growth?

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The energy revolution

How new supplies and changing demand is transforming the energy industry.

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India's Jobless Graduates

Is a college education worth the high cost and hard work, if you can't get a job?

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USA's climate change

We go into the mighty Hoover Dam to explore the challenges of the US's changing climate.

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CEO severe stress

The CEO who stripped to his underpants in a boardroom due to severe stress

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Colombia's Peace Dividend?

Could peace talks help Colombia become a new tiger economy?

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Oil price setting

After Libor rate-rigging, could the setting of oil prices also be open to manipulation?

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Do general strikes achieve anything?

What will Greece's 20th general strike since the eurozone crisis began actually achieve?

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Strike Season in South Africa

The ruinous effect of this year's strikes on the South African economy.

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Frankel: The earning power of the world's top racehorse

The earning power of the world's top racehorse plus what businesses can learn from chimps.

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