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World Service,29 Dec 2010,26 mins

Austere Festivities

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Who's the festive fellow who can save Europe's indebted economies from austerity? Are business schools to blame for bankers' bonus culture? And what can a country do if it is suddenly stripped of its most valuable asset - oil? Plus: we'll be testing the emotional spell checker and finding out what's wrong with the way we all manage our information.

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