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Business Daily: The Disappearing Act.

21/10/2009

The Disappearing Act.

BBC World Service - Business Daily, The Disappearing Act.

Should dollars disappear as the main world currency? And catching debtors who vanish.

Should the dollar disappear as the world's main currency? What would happen if it did?  Plus, how to catch debtors who vanish when the bills get too big.

Business Daily has a theme and that theme is:  "vanishing".  There are calls for the dollar to disappear as the world's reserve currency - but do they add up?  Dr Hans Black, the founder of a money management company, assesses the implications.  And we'll talk to "skip tracer", Frank Ahearn, on how he tracks down people who vanish when the debts get too much for them.  Plus the invisible leaders of internet protests.  Fancy another life?  Business Daily takes you there.

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