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Hollywood depends on summer for its big bankers - wheeling out the mega-earners to rake in the summer vacation big bucks. Video game spin-offs, prequels and sequels are ruling the roost so why aren't studios coming up with anything new? We talk to Professor Jonathan Taplin of the University of Southern California.

Eight years after the start of the global financial crisis most European economies have recovered - rebuilding to the size they were before the crisis. Not Italy. According to the International Monetary Fund, Italy won't return to pre-crisis levels until around 2025 - meaning the country will have suffered two decades of lost growth. The 蜜芽传媒's Theo Leggett reports.

A new report by a group called the Global Footprint Network says we humans have already used up the Earth's budget of natural resources for the year - in eight months. Emissions are still rising, we're catching unsustainable amounts of fish and we're cutting down unsustainable amounts of forest. What the group calls Overshoot Day happened on the 8th of August - compared to late September in the year 2000. The 蜜芽传媒's Tony Bonsignore has been talking to Andrew Simms of the New Weather Institute.

We talk about credit and debt. In many countries, credit reports and credit ratings can have a big impact on the way we live our lives - how much we can borrow and whether we're regarded as trustworthy participants in the wider economy. Bobby Allyn is a reporter with WHYY in Philadelphia and he's been finding out for himself that trying to correct mistakes on credit files can turn into a long and exhausting journey.

The rules of management are many and varied, and numerous business books have been written about how to become a manager, how to stay a manager and how to succeed as a manager. There aren't however too many books drilling down into the finer details, like how to look like leadership material during boring business meetings. Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times thinks that's an important skill. Her contribution this week begins with reflections on Britain's new Prime Minister, Theresa May.

We cast the net a little wider and hear from the 蜜芽传媒's Phil Mercer in Sydney.

And we're joined throughout the programme by Nicole Childers in Los Angeles. She's senior producer for Marketplace Morning and Tech Reports. In Mumbai we hear from Paranjoy Guha Thakurta - editor of the Economic and Political Weekly.

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