Collapsing commodity prices and reduced external financing have worsened Latin America’s prospects in the past year, with the region growing its slowest since the 2009 global recession. Ameera David weighs in and then sits down with Steve Hanke – professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University – to talk about Argentina.
After the break,Bianca Facchinei takes a look at recent EU proposals to prohibit terrorism financing through digital currencies. Ameera and RT correspondent Manuel Rapalo discuss the Pfizer-Allergan deal. And in The Big Deal, Ameera and Edward Harrison talk about big decisions at the Fed and ECB.
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