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The biggest financial stories and why they matter to us all.

n the Balance helps listeners find out what's really going on in this changing global economy.

Hosts Lesley Curwen and Justin Rowlatt get behind the headlines in an attempt to divine whether the world is heading for disaster or prosperity. A panel of guests provides easily digestible insight into how this whole globalization thing got started – and where may finish.

But it's not all serious analysis. In the Balance also features management-consultant-turned-comic Colm O'Regan, who gives his alternative view of the week's events. The panelists also speculate on who's up and who's down in the world of international finance.