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World Service,23 Jul 1999,27 mins

Boom and Bust

My Century

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The economic highs and lows of the 20th Century. Herbert Rees and Marion Gerver recall the German hyperinflation of the 1920s; John Kenneth Galbraith recounts the Wall street crash and the Great Depression that followed it in the US; Antonio Trinidad became a lottery millionaire in Spain; Siriwat Walleway Wittikun became a millionaire in Thailand's economic boom, but lost it all in the late 1990s; and Ahn Byung-wha describes South Korea's economic reconstruction.

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