The banks may have been on holiday but, to paraphrase Gordon Gekko, The Business never sleeps, so welcome to the second instalment of our weekly programme dedicated to all things business, credit crunch and the economic downturn.
This week, Aditya Chakrabortty is joined by Deborah Hargreaves, Julia Finch and Larry Elliott to discuss signs of recovery, confidence tricksters and economic forecasting.
We start by going on spring watch to find those green shoots of recovery the politicians keep promising us. Have we turned the corner? Or are there still darker times ahead?
Our Wall Street correspondent Andrew Clark fills us in on Ponzi schemes, and the latest twist in the case against Texan billionaire Allen Stanford as he prepares for his day in court. How does his alleged fraud compare to that of Bernard Madoff?
Finally, we look at the beleaguered car industry - on both sides of the Atlantic - and ask why is it running on empty.
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