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Business Weekly Archive Episodes

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    Muslim brands and talking cars

    Businessman Rafi-uddin Shikoh on why there are few Muslim global brands. And talking cars.

  2. China's hidden bank loans

    Is China's economy still overheating? Plus do food price controls really work?

  3. A glimpse of the future

    The debate over our energy future plus how the business of television is going to change.

  4. Business Weekly: It's all who you know

    It's not what you know, it's who you know: Twenty-first century networking

  5. Cleaning up reputations

    We launch a clean-up of the Gulf of Mexico, BP's reputation and Europe's banks.

  6. 23/07/2010

    The key interviews, reports and thoughts of the week. Everything you need to know from...

  7. China Re-invents Itself

    Chinese underground music, American financial reforms and a whopping dose of envy.

  8. Product Placement

    Does product placement work? Plus Mick Jagger on the era of making money from music.

  9. Borders without barriers

    A brave new attempt to break down barriers to trade, at Africa's border posts.

  10. Age Of Austerity

    The riches of Afghanistan and the poverty of governments.

  11. CEO's Under Pressure

    The man top CEOs turn to. Is Obama going the way of Carter? And workers pay in China.

  12. African Tales

    African tales - of human rights crimes in Zimbabwe and perceptions of hope in Benin.

  13. West African Journey

    We travel through Africa studying the power of money. Is it a force for good or bad?

  14. Dreams and Nightmares

    Tasting chocolate and saving the Euro. Plus Apple's iPad and Puffin Books.

  15. Advice to Greece

    Advice to Greece: get a Plan B. Advice to tech-minded girls who want to be engineers.

  16. A Stimulating Stimulus?

    Is the stimulus doing its job of creating work? We report from California.

  17. Uncertainty

    Uncertainty in the markets and uncertainty in Britain from the general election.

  18. The Age of Austerity - But will there be Riots?

    When does anger turn to riot? As governments tighten belts, lessons from 200 years ago.

  19. Ash, cash and balls

    The cost of dodging volcanic fall-out and the truth about Spain's labour laws.

  20. From China and Japan to the Frozen South

    Will the Chinese revalue their currency? And will the Japanese ever beat deflation?

  21. Money and Happiness

    Can money bring you happiness? We contrast two different jobs - and salaries.

  22. Papers, poetry and politics

    Google on newspapers survival; poetry and capitalism; US corporate political ambitions.

  23. China, Zimbabwe and economics rap

    America gets tough with China over its currency. And the rapping economics professor.

  24. Trouble and strife

    Trouble in Spain. Trouble in Africa. But is there a silver lining in the Middle east?

  25. Of Puzzles and Solutions

    Brazil on-line, Iceland's money-troubles and Iranian sanctions. And a wooden game.

  26. Greek and Icelandic debts

    Iceland's debt has led to anger. Greek finances see speculators bet against the euro.

  27. Greece and Africa

    The man accused of fiddling the figures in Greece. The cost of Africa's financial crisis.

  28. Work, Death & Football

    The not-for-profit US companies which supply human bodies to academics and scientists.

  29. Europe on the Ropes?

    Europe vows to support Greece through its financial woes. But does that mean a bailout?

  30. Dreadful Debts and Damaged Reputations

    The Greek debt crisis, Toyota's stained reputation and Sweden's model for bank bailouts.

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