The unprecedented restrictions represent a profound breach of an important principle of the European Union, says the BBC's economics correspondent Andrew Walker.

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And to help us do that, NPR economics correspondent Adam Davidson is with me, and he's gone over the three candidates' positions.

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Here to help us make heads or tails of it all is NPR's economics correspondent and friend of the BPP, Adam Davidson.

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We're talking with NPR's international economics correspondent, Adam Davidson.

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Cypriot leaders are struggling to agree how to raise the money but the BBC's economics correspondent Andrew Walker in Brussels says they appear to be moving towards some sort of contribution from banks' customers.

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Shortly after Fed Chairman Bernanke testified this morning, I went with NPR economics correspondent, Adam Davidson, to a place where they spend all day watching to see who's borrowing and who's lending, and who can match a borrower with a lender.

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Raised in suburban Long Island, Ruddy earned a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics, signed on as a journalist first at the New York Post, then as a national correspondent for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.

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