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Last broadcast on Sun, 31 Jan 2010, 19:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Informal traders and black market profiteers: do they represent the seamy side of business or capitalsim in its purest form? Toby Sheta, a Zimbabwean mobile phone trader, talks about how he had to apply
"situational morality" to make money during the Mugabe regime.
Jim Chanos is a legendary New York investor from Kynikos Associates who built his fortune by anticipating the collapse of Enron and other flawed corporations. He now foresees a crash in China's sizzling property market.
Expectations have been high over President Obama's bank reforms. But will they work?
Lesley Curwen asked Professor Martin Feldstein, a current member of Mr Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and Professor Tim Congdon former economic advisor to the British government.
Chapters
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Going Against The Grain
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Chapter 1
Informal traders and black market profiteers: do they represent the seamy side of business or capitalsim in its purest form?
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Chapter 2
Informal traders and black market profiteers: do they represent the seamy side of business or capitalsim in its purest form?
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Chapter 3
Informal traders and black market profiteers: do they represent the seamy side of business or capitalsim in its purest form?
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Broadcasts
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Sat 30 Jan 201006:32
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Sun 31 Jan 201010:32
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Sun 31 Jan 201019:32
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