Month: February 2014

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #25 – “Tijuana Mama”

In this episode, the Goods from the Woods Boys are just catching up and answering some more letters from you, our adoring fans! This episode covers gas station food, the former lives of the biggest assholes on the radio, and the greatest songs to listen to while going number two. Normally we have side tangents; this episode is ALL tangents! Also, we'll take a peek at this week's issue of the Disgraceland Picayune! Follow the show @TheGoodsPod  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Dr. Pat is @PM_Reilly Mr. Goodnight is @SepulvedaCowboy  Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

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Start the Week - Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance

Tom Sutcliffe discusses money with the American economist Charles Calomiris, who looks back at the history of financial disasters and argues that they're caused more by government failures, than individual bankers. The former head of the Financial Services Authority, Adair Turner, might agree on the need for structural changes, but famously said 'heads should roll' in the banking industry, and has damned much of the banks' trading activities as 'socially useless'. If there has been a moral vacuum at the heart of the banking industry, are there lessons to be learnt from Islamic banking? The financial advisor Harris Irfan believes it's a system that is more equitable and transparent. Seventy five years ago Steinbeck's great depression novel, Grapes of Wrath, was published and Maggie Gee explores its legacy and asks where the wrath is now?

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak

The rise and fall of an online epidemic: How studying the spread of infectious diseases suggests the global drinking craze Neknomination will fizzle out. Drinkers post videos of their exploits and nominate others to do the same ? but eventually the fad will run out of steam says epidemiologist Adam Kucharski from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Plus, while politicians debate how much to tax the rich in France and the UK? we look at which countries levy the highest and the lowest rates of income tax for both the wealthy and average worker. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - A Suicide Epidemic in the Banking World?

A recent spate of suicides by high-level banking officials has shaken the financial world. Coincidence? Or conspiracy?

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