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The US central bank has cut interest rates for the first time since 2008. We hear from Randall Kroszner, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth Business School, and a former member of the Fed's Board of Governors.

Events are taking place this month across America and West Africa to mark 400 years since the first African slaves landed in Virginia. We talk to Kimberly Adams of Marketplace on American Public Media about the business of slavery, specifically, the accounting and management practises still used today that were laid down in that horrifying business.

Our reporter, Elizabeth Hotson heads to the British Library to find out its intellectual property collection helps entrepreneurs set businesses.

And joining us throughout the programme is Jos茅 Mart铆n, radical organizer and researcher of social unrest - he's in Washington DC. And the writer Rachel Cartland, former senior Hong Kong government official is with us from our Hong Kong bureau.

Pic description: US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
Pic credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images