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Is the US Leading the Way to a Global Recession?
The International Monetary Fund says America's financial crisis is so bad it will damage the rest of the world -- except for the Middle East and Asia. This as finance ministers from the major industrialized countries have gathered in Washington to figure out what to do.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readThe International Monetary Fund says America's financial crisis is so bad it will damage the rest of the world -- except for the Middle East and Asia. This as finance ministers from the major industrialized countries have gathered in Washington to figure out what to do. Not everybody's as pessimistic as the IMF, but nobody doubts that there's trouble ahead. Is the global economy faced with another Great Depression? How worried should Americans be? What should be done, and will there be winners as well as losers, both at home and abroad?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Dan Konecky
Producer, To the Point
Simon Johnson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Malpass
Chief Economist, Bear Stearns
Desmond Lachman
former Deputy Director of the Policy and Review, International Monetary Fund
The full episode
2 of 3Is the US Leading the Way to a Global Recession?- 1:30Mugabe Snubs an Emergency Regional Summit
- 7:30Is the US Leading the Way to a Global Recession?You’re reading this
- 42:09The Pirates of Somalia