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.
Comments [7]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.
Comments [25]An Indian-American writer, who’s gone back to India in search of opportunity, talks about how he sees India and America now.
Comments [12]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.
Comments [35]Historian Niall Ferguson discusses the economic crisis of our time, right now.
Comments [29]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.
Comments [16]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.
Comments [24]Despite all evidence, for a lot of Americans, the world — or their sense of it — and the American place in it seems frozen in about 1999. The Soviet Union — vanquished. The American economy — number one, of course. American might and influence — unchallenged. The USA — a master superpower.
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Spies, lies and nukes. We’ll look at a new history of nuclear proliferation – and how the bomb really spread.
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Barack Obama’s nearly $800 billion stimulus package outline is now front and center in Washington. What’s in it? And can it save the economy?
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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says global sex trafficking is 21st-century slavery — and he wants Barack Obama to abolish it.
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As Israel presses its war on Hamas, we’ll look at the Arab world’s reaction to the dire situation in Gaza, and what it means for the Middle East.
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