Listener: 22 December, 2011. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; It has been another difficult year for the world economy. Longstanding problems that were incrementally addressed include population growth, the depletion of limited resources like oil, the exploitation of free resources that threaten to make fish extinct and warm the planet, and the rebalancing of global power….
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Listener: 10 December, 2011. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; The confidence of those lending their international money is fragile. The tougher standards of security they now demand is one reason many debtors around the world are having their credit ratings downgraded. Nowadays the lenders don’t look at just the state of a government’s books but at…
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