With falling exports, closing factories, and fear of social upheaval, we’ll look at what China does now, with top observers in Shanghai and Beijing.

John Maynard Keynes wanted to save capitalism from itself. Now he’s back, in a big way. Economist and biographer Robert Skidelsky looks at the Keynes comeback.

Move over Mr. Ponzi, Bernard Madoff is here. We’ll look at the scam that’s rocking rich Americans, and a whole lot more.

Blagojevich makes “bleeping” a headline. Detroit prays for a bailout. Obama taps an energy chief. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Washington talks of help for homeowners. One plan has mortgage rates at 4.5 percent. Great news, but for whom? We look at the plans.

We look back on money, greed, and the bubble with a hedge-fund poet.

New York Times columnist, economist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman on the crisis of 2008 and what it’s going to take to dig ourselves out.

Historian Niall Ferguson discusses the economic crisis of our time, right now.

Should Washington bail out Detroit? We hear the arguments for and against pouring billions into America’s collapsing auto industry.

Top Wall Street insider Henry Kaufman on what our economy — and society — are up against in the current downturn.

Fear and trembling in the retail world. If the lights go out in economic crisis, what happens to all those stores?

Stopping the foreclosure devastation. We’ll look at a plan that would let strapped homeowners rent to buy.

In the wake of the G7 crisis meeting and dramatic actions in Washington and Europe, we look at the global economic picture, the future of globalization, and where America stands in the world.

We’ll talk with the top advisors to Obama and McCain on the number one issue in the world — the economy, and how to save it.

Investigative reporter Danny Schechter names names, in what he calls the “plunder” of the U.S. economy.

At the root of the financial crisis — problems with American bank regulation and the American housing market. We’ll look at both.

We look at the long-checkered history of financial rescues and bailouts — and what they’ve meant for the U.S. economy.

We open up the phone lines and hear from listeners on the historic bailout failure, the financial crisis, and what should happen now.

We’ve heard from Congress and the White House on financial meltdown. But what is Wall Street itself thinking? We’ll get the word on the Street.

Washington brinksmanship and the fate of the U.S. economy. We’ll look at bailout plans, the political drama, and the hard road ahead.

Washington in crisis mode, and a week of everything on the line — economy, election, debates. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The big bailout goes to Congress, and the pressure for action is intense. We’ll go to the Hill, and beyond, for a hard look at Washington’s options.

Financial crisis in the USA, and the whole world is watching. We’ll reach out to London, Moscow, Shanghai and more to ask what they see in the rubble on Wall Street.

Buy? Sell? Hold or panic? We ask top financial advisers what they advise now in a scrambled market.

We’ll look at the historic Federal bailout of America’s financial system — and what it will, and should, mean for Wall Street and the rest of the country.

Former Bush Treasury official John Taylor, now advising McCain, and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, now advising Obama, on the way out of this financial crisis.

Bear Stearns was bailed out. Then Fannie and Freddie. Now Lehman Brothers has gone to the brink. More could follow. How much should the government step in?

It has been scary times for any American with two cents to invest and no idea where to put it. Stock markets — at home and abroad — way off their highs and who knows where the bottom is. Housing prices collapsing. Headlines full of crisis talk and emergency intervention.
The pros say don’t panic, but [...]

The language out of Wall Street today is enough to scare you silly. Crisis. Fire sale. Brink of collapse. Titanic mess.
Late last night the news spread that JPMorgan Chase and the Fed have engineered a takeover of floundering Wall Street bad boy Bear Stearns.
A year ago, when the bonuses and bull were flying high, Bear [...]

It is scary out there in the world of economic indicators.
Inflation is at its highest rate in a quarter century. Home prices are getting low and lower. Factory orders are lousy. The U.S. dollar is plummeting.
It’s no wonder consumer confidence is on the rocks. Never mind recession — some days it sounds like we should [...]

In the world’s hyper-ventilating global stock markets, the bleeding has slowed, for the moment.
After two days of outright panic on markets in Bombay and Hong Kong and across Europe, the US Federal Reserve Bank jammed through a huge rate cut. President Bush and Henry Paulson and Congressional leaders hustled to a big photo op, talked [...]

In case you missed it, here’s the wealth of nations news on planet Earth: the biggest banks in America — the crown jewels of U.S. financial power — are being bailed out by foreigners. Billion after billion is being pumped in from China and Singapore, Kuwait and Korea and Dubai.
American bankers made a killing in [...]

OK, here’s the blue economy scenario for 2008. Housing prices keep falling. Credit stays tight. Consumers choke. In retailing, restaurants, travel and more, jobs vanish. In real estate, construction and banking, investment seizes up. Money retreats. Growth is gone. And we’ve got a recession on our hands.
For months, economists have debated whether it’s here already. [...]