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Cato Daily Podcast - Reining in ‘Special Taxing Districts’
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World Book Club - Pat Barker
This month World Book Club is in a reflective mood as we mark the beginning of the centenary commemorations for World War One by inviting multi-award-winning British writer Pat Barker on to the programme.
She'll be talking to us about her internationally renowned novel Regeneration, the first in the trilogy which culminated in the Booker Prize winner The Ghost Road.
Also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and now recognised, twenty-two years after its publication, as a modern war classic, Regeneration is a part-historical, part-fictional exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.
Picture: WW1 patients recuperating in hospital in 1918, Credit: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
More or Less: Behind the Stats - WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 – part 2
A guide to 2013 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year discussed by More or Less interviewees. Contributors: Dr Pippa Malmgren, President and founder of Principalis Asset Management; Merryn Somerset-Webb, Editor in Chief of MoneyWeek; Helen Arney, Comedian and Presenter. Producer: Ben Carter. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Motley Fool Money - Motley Fool Money: 01.03.2014
What does the market's stellar performance in 2013 mean for investors this year? On this week's show, we preview 2014.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Pension Charges
When the government announced that fees charged by pension providers could be capped, some listeners were sceptical that the benefits could be as great as was being claimed. Tim Harford and Money Box presenter Paul Lewis explain why the numbers do add up. It's claimed that an average of 100,000 Christians die as martyrs every year; Ruth Alexander and Tim Harford fact-check the widely-quoted statistic. Plus, Number Hub mathematician Matt Parker presents his guide to imperial measures; is Britain's railway really Europe's 'most improved'? And when six cyclists died in just two weeks in London, was that a cluster in a random distribution, or a sign that something is systematically wrong with road safety in the capital?
Money Girl - 339 MG 5 Best Bank Accounts for 2014
Find out the best bank accounts that pay high interest, have no fees, giver better service, and offer cutting-edge technology. Get the Money Girl book at http://MoneyGirlBook.com