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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Small spending cuts?
Tim Harford is back with a new series of More or Less, and the numbers behind the news. Are the cuts "small"? And we introduce "The Other Census".
Cato Daily Podcast - Entitlements and the Federal Budget
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - The Story of Economics ‘Monsters’
In this three-part series Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right. In the third and final programme, 'Monsters', Michael investigates another view of economics: that it is the story of people, how they think and behave.
Cato Daily Podcast - What Obama Should Have Said on Libya
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Money Girl - 214 MG Tax Boot Camp: Session 3
If you haven't filed your tax return yet, don't sweat it! Get 7 last-minute tips to file your income tax return and meet the deadline so you stay out of trouble with the IRS. http://j.mp/MoneyBooks
Cato Daily Podcast - The Weinberger-Powell Doctrine and Libya
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Start the Week - 28/03/2011
Andrew Marr talks to Niall Ferguson about the history of civilisation, and how the West came to triumph over what appeared to be superior empires in the East, and whether that ascendancy is in permanent decline. While the economist George Magnus questions whether emerging markets, like China, really are about to dominate the world. The Queen will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee next year, and the commentator Peter Whittle presents a robust defence of the monarchy as one of Britain's leading institutions. And as revolution and change sweep across the Middle East, Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed looks at the impact on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Producer: Katy Hickman.
The History of Rome - 131- The New Game in Town
With the Tetrarchy in shambles, Diocletian will be called out of retirement in 308 AD to help broker a settlement. But the new new order will prove as bad as the old new order.
Slate Books - Audio Book Club: Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!
In this week’s Audio Book Club, Slate’s Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and Hanna Rosin discuss Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, a new novel about the struggle of a family who runs an alligator-wrestling theme park.
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