President Obama makes his first trip to Asia. We’ll look at his agenda, and the rising power of the East.

Globalization backlash. A new critique out of the third world and black America.

We’ll look at America’s banker — China — and what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is bringing home from Beijing.

A young African economist says “no thanks” to aid for Africa — that it hurts the continent. We’ll stage a debate.

The G-20 speaks. Detroit gets an ultimatum. North Korea fuels up for launch. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

With President Obama across the Atlantic for the G20 summit, we’ll ask Europeans how they see the way out of the global economic crisis — and whether America can still lead.

Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson says the U.S. is still a prisoner of the financial industry, and needs to make a break.

In a global economy in trouble, we’ll get the big view from India, with super-entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani.

World finance ministers meet, but can they save the world economy? We’ll probe the G-20 — and the turmoil in global finance.

Australian Paul Gilding calls the economic crisis “The Great Disruption” – the moment when the Earth’s environment and the economy hit the wall, together. We’ll talk with Gilding and others who say it’s time to change.

The CIA warns that global economic crisis could spell instability for Latin America, from Argentina north. We’ll ask what’s coming.

The Atlantic’s James Fallows is back from China as America transfers power to a new president. We’ll ask how it all looks to the China maven.

Uber-economist Martin Feldstein on what it’s really going to take to pull out of the trouble we’re in.

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.

An Indian-American writer, who’s gone back to India in search of opportunity, talks about how he sees India and America now.

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.

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.

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.