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The man who foresaw the financial crisis

We're recovering from the biggest economic disaster in years so why didn't the banks see it coming? Economist Joseph Stiglitz did - issuing a warning at Davos in 2007 that the bubble was just about to burst. A year later he went back to hear the response.

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