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Topic: How the World Works (page 31)

A conversation about globalization.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters in Albany in February .

WASHINGTON - APRIL 20: Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) participates in a news conference on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. The senator discussed how Wall Street reform will bring transparency and accountability to derivatives market. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, accompanied by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, left, and the Senate Banking Committee's Ranking Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April, 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

From left, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein; JPMorgan Chase & Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James Dimon; Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack, and Bank of America Corporation Chief Executive Officer and President Brian Moynihan, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

World to U.S.: We like you, we really do

From left, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein; JPMorgan Chase & Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James Dimon; Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack, and Bank of America Corporation Chief Executive Officer and President Brian Moynihan, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

The new Goldman Sachs headquarters in lower Manhattan.

U.S. government to Goldman Sachs: You lied!

Paul Krugman

(Spencer Platt)

Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., in March.

You can't stop the American consumer

Paul Krugman

CHICAGO - APRIL 09: Shoppers carry their purchases along the Magnificent Mile shopping district April 9, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Recovering faster than other sectors of the economy, sales of luxury goods during March 2010 are up nearly 23 percent from a year ago but still remain well below March of 2008. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) (Scott Olson)

Finally, Twitter sells out

Meg Whitman, who is running for governor of California, attends a meeting at the Union Pacific railroad offices in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP)

Paul Krugman

In this photo taken Tuesday, April 6, 2010, a bank clerk counts Chinese banknotes next to U.S. dollars on the counter at a bank in Hefei, in central China's Anhui province. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to press Beijing over its currency controls when he meets Vice Premier Wang Qishan in a sign the two sides are stepping up efforts to narrow their differences in the dispute. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT ** (AP)

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2009, file photo, a woman walks by a shop with sale signs in Tokyo, Japan. Japan says consumer prices kept falling in February as deflation strengthened its grip on the world's second biggest economy. The core consumer price index, which excludes fresh food, retreated 1.2 percent from a year earlier, the government said Friday March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (AP)

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