The International Response to the Financial Credit Freeze

The International Response to the Financial Credit Freeze

Central banks around the world are cutting interest rates in hopes of addressing the financial crisis. A look at how the economic troubles facing the U.S. have spread across the globe and what governments are doing to rescue banks...

Central banks around the world are cutting interest rates in hopes of addressing the financial crisis. A look at how the economic troubles facing the U.S. have spread across the globe and what governments are doing to rescue banks, industry and borrowers

Guests

Sebastian Mallaby

director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies; deputy director of studies and Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations

Simon Johnson

senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, professor, the Sloan School of Management at the M.I.T., and former economic counselor at the I.M.F. He is the co-author of "The Baseline Scenario: What Happened to the Global Economy and What We Can do About It" and the soon-to-be-released book "13 Bankers - The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown."

Albert Keidel

senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, former acting manager of the Treasury Department's Asia Office, and an adjunct professor of China's economy at Georgetown University.

Paula Subachhi

International Economics Research Director for the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

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