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World Service,19 Oct 2009,18 mins

Group-think

Business Daily

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Were the financial authorities paralysed by group-think in the run-up to the crash last year? David Blanchflower former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee tells us, they didn't want to listen to any warning voices. As the trade relationship between China and the US worsens, Lesley Curwen speaks to David Dollar, America's economic emissary to Beijing. And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial times was recently a victim of theft, and she's been musing on how people respond to it.

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