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How to Enjoy Work
How to find enjoyment in the everyday drudgery of work
How to be Angry
From hotheads to curmudgeons, is anger bad for business or can we put it to good use?
The Whistleblowing Industry
How whistleblowers in the US are earning millions from exposing corporate wrongdoing.
Greed is Bad
Why the greed of capitalism could spell trouble for society and the environment.
Elements: Arsenic
The poison in everything from paint and sweets, to telegraph polls and drinking water.
Russia's Far East
Is Russia's much-hailed pivot towards China a fact or just wishful thinking?
Is the Euro Doomed?
Nobel laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, says so: "Either federalise or abandon the currency."
Hong Kong and China
What Hong Kong's election result means for its economic and business ties with China
Big-Spending Canada
Canada's Liberal Prime Minister is preaching an anti-austerity message.
Elements: the Platinum Group
Six rare metals that clean the air but are the focus of violent conflict in South Africa.
Women in Finance: Is There Room For Sisterhood?
How realistic is 'Equity', a film which features women in powerful financial roles?
Do Second-Hand Clothes Help Africa?
Discarded western clothes sell well in Africa. But do they help the economies there?
Intern or Drudge?
Are work placements great opportunities or just an excuse to exploit young workers?
Cash v Plastic
Why is the UK getting a new five pound note in an increasingly cashless economy?
Elements: Thorium
This metal offers thousands of years of nuclear energy, but is it any safer than uranium?
Feeding The World
The business of food: how we eat, what we eat, and who's running the show.
The Business of Wild Bush Meat
Preying on endangered species as food for the table.
Trumponomics
Pricing the Republican candidate's plan: will it spur growth, or cause an economic crash?
Becoming an American
Stories from a US naturalisation ceremony in southern Texas.
Elements: Gold
Why do we value this useless metal? And does it bring out the worst in human nature?
Africa's Social Entrepreneurs
Businesses designed to make an impact as well as a profit.
Resettling Refugees
How can an influx of migrants be integrated most quickly into the host country's economy?
Weaning Saudi Arabia Off Oil
How difficult is it to wean the Saudi Arabian economy off its oil wealth?
Tales of the Mexican Border
Trade and migration at the Texas-Mexico border.
Elements: the Obscure Ones
In the final programme in the series we look at the rarest members of the periodic table.
Future in Review: The Importance of "Flow"
Unpicking the big new buzzword at the annual futurist technology conference in Utah.
Future in Review: Meet the Entrepreneurs
Hyperloops, medical diagnostics, modular satellites - it's all happening in Utah.
Deutsche Bank in Trouble
Deutsche faces a potential $14bn fine. Could it trigger a wider banking industry crisis?
Living on the Border
Joe Miller reports from the colonias - unregulated settlements - on the US-Mexico border.
India's Boom Economy
It's the world's fastest growing major economy. But has globalisation helped the poorest?
Is Globalisation Wilting or Blooming?
Some say Africa's been left behind by globalisation. Is ever-freer global trade fairer?