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Coming up this week, what kind of reception

will Venezuela's debt proposal receive?

Probably ice cold, certainly from creditors

who have anything to do with the United States.

And why has Prince Alawa lead the rest to baffled markets?

This is pretty unprecedented in any Arab monarchy.

This is really monumental, a change in business practice in the kingdom for decades.

But first, bubbles.

Like the South China Sea bubble and the dot-com bubble,

there's one in the world of ICOs, initial coin offerings.

People are buying tokens in companies with

bit coins or ether, and this market has exploded, but with what consequences.

Ludwig Ziegler are technology editors here.

Ludwig, let's describe the scope of the bubble to start with how big is it and what sort of things are going on.

I mean it's actually relatively small I should say it's like free billion dollars

have been raised using ICOs and to put that in in perspective that's perhaps 2% of

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