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Business Weekly Archive: Sewage, Bankruptcy and Strikes

04/03/2011

Sewage, Bankruptcy and Strikes

BBC World Service - Business Weekly Archive, Sewage, Bankruptcy and Strikes

An American county is facing bankruptcy because Wall St helped finance its sewers.

Birmingham, Alabama, is one American county staring bankruptcy in the face - because Wall Street helped it finance a sewer system. 

Plus: why has Calcutta become India's city of strikes?

We look at one American county that's staring bankruptcy in the face - all because Wall Street banks helped it arrange financing for a sewer system. 

Plus: why has Calcutta become India's city of strikes? 

And we talk to the anti-capitalist rebel who became a business guru by selling handbags which creak.

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