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The Economist is your go-to source for unmissable financial insights. We'll be speaking with Goldman Sachs' team of global economists, financial analysts, and investors to help you prepare for the week ahead. A number of Arab states are deeply in debt, albeit for different reasons. And how about going on safari? In Brooklyn, to spot parakeets, we look at just one of America's thousands of invasive species.

If there is one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propitious time to steal Twitter’s thunder. Deeply indebted Arab countries desperately need loans from the IMF, but have good reasons to balk at the fund’s terms (10:00). And New Yorkers love their invasive parakeets; the birds’ enormous nests, less so (18:41).

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