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Financial crisis: it's time to stick together, not run away

All or nothing

This week, we look at media commentary on the financial crisis and on South Africa's rabble-rousing ANC youth leader, Julius Malema.

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One hell of a ride

As the global financial crisis worsens, the reports get more dramatic. Would you be able to use the right kind of language to describe what's happening now? Take our short test to find out.

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Bite, chew or crunch?

EFA (38): Liquidity trap

A key concept in Keynesian economics — and a possible explanation forwhy economies can get stuck in a recession — is the idea of a "liquidity trap". Economics for Amateurs (EFA), part 38.

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Liquiditätsfalle

This week we listen to the business news. We'll play two short news segments for you, one on the effect of the recession on filmmaking in Bollywood, and the other on a UK company called Ounces2Pounds. As you listen, see if you can answer the following questions.

Question time

Sometimes in life, all you need to do is to ask the right question. Either of yourself or of others. Once the right question is there, you have a reasonable chance of getting the right answer. At least that's what the queen discovered.

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Creating wealth

Are banks returning to their bad old ways? We look at media comment on the financial crisis, as well as on the planned free-trade agreement between India and ASEAN.

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Nothing to say

There's something I've been wondering about bloggers, having been one myself for the past nine months. What do they do when they have absolutely nothing to say? Now I have found the answer: they write anyway.

Scammed again

Bernard Madoff has pleaded guilty to one of the biggest scams in the history of Wall Street. He scammed investors out of billions of dollars — $65 billion to be exact. The scammer could face up to 150 years behind bars. He deserves every one of them.

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Capitalism in trouble? (2)

You can't judge a book by its cover. I discovered how true this is recently when I bought a book with a beautiful and funny cover that had monkeys hanging on a graph. Unfortunately, the message inside wasn't nearly as funny or beautiful.

man darf Sachen oder Personen nicht gleich vom ersten Eindruck her beurteilen

Diagramm, grafische Darstellung

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