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World Service,25 Sep 2009,28 mins

In search of the new austerity

Business Weekly Archive

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Business Weekly this week has a truly global reach. In New York we talk to John Thane, the bricklayer's son who became head of Merrill Lynch - and then fell back to earth. And we hear from Adam Levinson; the hedge fund manager whose reward last year was a cool $300 million. We'll have a report, too, from China, from the port of Dalian, about how the to turn a nation of savers into a nation of spenders. Economist Stephen Roach features. And in Las Vegas the President of MGM Miragehead, Jim Murren, tells us how to raise money in a downturn. Plus how John McAfee lost a fortune and gained a new perspective about wealth.

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