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Topic: How the World Works (page 20)

A conversation about globalization.

File - In this July 6, 2010 file photo, Prius hybrid vehicles are displayed at Toyota Motor Corp.'s showroom in Tokyo. Toyota's Prius is becoming a little less quiet with a new electronic humming device that is the automaker's answer to complaints that pedestrians can't hear the top-selling car approaching. The 12,600 yen ($148) speaker system that goes under the hood of the third-generation Prius sets off a whirring sound designed to be about the same noise level as a regular car engine so that it isn't annoying, Toyota said Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File) (AP)

Larry Summers

Don't replace Larry Summers with a CEO

Larry Summers

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Elizabeth Warren

The Washington Post's "qualms" about Warren

The German Army feeds the poor in Berlin in 1930.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)

Obama: The Tea Party is blaming the wrong culprit

George W. Bush

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, President Barack Obama, and Elizabeth Warren

The president and the janitor's daughter

Customer Han Ziwen holds up his iPads while being carried out by store employees at the Apple flagship store in Beijing

Chinese railroad workers in California.

FILE - In this July 21, 2010, file photo, Elizabeth Warren, head of the Congressional Oversight Panel testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing to examine the Troubled Asset Relief Program in Washington. Obama will appoint Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to oversee the creation of a new consumer protection bureau, a Democratic official said Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (AP)

Elizabeth Warren

President Obama speaks about the economy on Wednesday.

Calf and his mother in front of a white background (Eric IsselÃ©e)

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., listens as the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., not pictured, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 26, 2010, after their meeting ahead of a crucial test vote for the financial reform bill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Charles Dharapak)

Senate Republican Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, speaks to reporters just before the Democratic majority voted 60-40 to end a GOP filibuster of legislation that would extend unemployment benefits for an estimated 2.5 million Americans, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Sen. Carte Goodwin, D-W.Va., newly-sworn as the appointed successor to West Virginia's Robert Byrd who died in June, provided the crucial 60th vote for Senate Democrats. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, listens at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

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