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In the Balance Episodes

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    Competing for critical elements

    Are we too dependent on metals and minerals that are increasingly hard to get hold of?

  2. Inflation: friend or foe?

    Is inflation still public enemy number one, or a useful economic tool for central bankers?

  3. Does Business have a responsiblity beyond making a profit?

    Are companies there to please their shareholders or do good? Can they do both?

  4. The quest for energy security

    Is there such a thing as safe energy?

  5. Is the global economy on the mend?

    Is this the year we put the global financial crisis behind us?

  6. Innovation

    Innovation 鈥� at the heart of an economy or an optional extra?

  7. Do good ethics make good business?

    Do ethics fly out of the window as we chase profit? Or is an ethical code key to business?

  8. Banking black hole

    Andrew Walker and guests discuss the size of the black hole of debt facing Europe's banks.

  9. Troubles Ahead?

    Manuela Saragosa's guests unpick the economic threats in America and the eurozone.

  10. Sharing the Wealth

    Do the global super-rich elite bring any benefit to the rest of society?

  11. Mobile Central Bankers

    Does it matter if a foreigner has the top job in a national institution?

  12. What difference does the boss make?

    Can one person change the whole culture of an organisation?

  13. Measuring prosperity

    What is it besides the money in people's pockets that makes a society prosperous?

  14. How does China move forward?

    Can China continue its world beating growth under new leadership?

  15. Kilkenomics

    Economists at Ireland's Kilkenomics festival discuss those behind the financial crisis.

  16. Can the Rainbow Nation deliver?

    What is it that stops South Africa delivering a better standard of living to its people?

  17. Young and Jobless

    Can a mix of entrepreneurship and technology lift young people out of joblessness?

  18. Green subsidies

    How long will taxpayers have to pay out billions to subsidise wind or solar power?

  19. US economy

    What will US voters look for on the economy? Plus, is an era of zero growth on the way?

  20. The Eurozone and Democracy

    Has Europe's financial crisis undermined the legitimacy of democratic politics?

  21. Divided Life?

    Divided lives: do we display different moral behaviour at work and at home?

  22. Are we all smartphone users now?

    Is there too much hype about smartphones and connectivity?

  23. Are central bankers grabbing too much power?

    As the ECB acts to save the euro, are central banks are over-reaching themselves?

  24. 01/09/2012

    Lesley Curwen and Justin Rowlatt get behind the headlines to find out what's really goi...

  25. Biofuels and Food Prices

    Are biofuels responsible for rising food prices?

  26. Choosing a Running Mate

    As Paul Ryan is picked, is the U.S. unusually divided on how to cut government borrowing?

  27. The risk of robo-traders

    Can automated share-trading threaten financial stability? Plus why corporate junkets work.

  28. Tax Evasion

    How much money is the developing world missing out on because of tax cheats?

  29. The Race for Investment

    Can emerging nations come to the rescue of the ailing economies of the developed world?

  30. Holding Companies to Account

    How can big companies be held to account by parliaments?

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