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On today's show, Will Ali Barber's plans to list in Hong Kong start a corporate shift away from Wall Street.

There's the concern that eventually the American government might turn against the Chinese

companies that are listed in the American market. A listing in Hong Kong gives it some

insurance.

And clearinghouses are supposed to make risky derivatives trading safer,

but are they doing their job?

These are for-profit entities that have an incentive to get as much transaction volumes as possible,

and one way for them to do that is keep standards looser. But first, it's easy to paint a bleak picture of the current jobs market.

Workers are supposedly underpaid, have lost control over their lives and will soon be replaced by robots.

There's just one problem with this characterization.

It's not true.

Callum Williams is our Britain economics correspondent.

He's been looking into how work in wealthy countries is not only plentiful, but for many people, is actually getting better.

The rich world is enjoying an unprecedented employment bonanza.

In the past five years, the OECD has added 43 million jobs.

The unemployment rate in the block of 36 mostly wealthy countries is just 5.2%, which is the lowest rate since the 1970s.

And in two-thirds of OECD countries, the employment rate of working-age people is currently at an all-time high.

If we're looking for answers to why jobs across the which world are booming, Japan is a great place to start. The country has had an average unemployment rate

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