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Business Matters: Is America Working?

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04/05/2013

Is America Working?

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Is America Working?

The US economy creates more jobs, but are they the right kind?

The US economy creates more jobs than expected.

A Nobel-prize winning economist tells us why some judges give tougher sentences before lunch.  And 100 years of Bollywood movies.

The US economy surprises by creating more jobs than expected in April - we hear from a small businessman and an economist why the job creation figures are not necessarily good news for ordinary workers. 

The Sage of Omaha joins the Twittersphere.  Journalists Heather Stewart of the Observer Newspaper London and Anne Bagamery of the International Herald Tribune in Paris reflect on Warren Buffet's tweets and other big news stories of the week. 

And from Australia, Jason Murphy from the Australian Financial Review in Melbourne tells Manuela Saragosa why the country's government is looking at taking a new approach to its leading trade partner - China  

Plus Nobel-prize winning economist and psychologist Daniel Kahneman on why some judges give tougher sentences before lunch ...

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