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Mar 2010
11m 23s

Bubbles in context

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
About this episode
The Open University’s Martin Upton, Jonquil Lowe and Alan Shipman take a wider look at whether the rapidly increasing recovery of the world economic market is a bubble itself. 
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