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Diane and her guests discuss China's economic stimulus plan, whether it can stave off a recession at home, and how it might affect the global economy.
Fred Bergsten, director of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics and author of "China's Rise."
Eswar Prasad, Professor of Economics at Cornell University, Senior Fellow at Brookings, and former head of the China Division at the IMF.
Yasheng Huang, Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management at MIT and author of "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics."
A leading financial columnist explains why the rise and fall of double digit inflation was the most important economic event of the past fifty years. He warns inflation is still a threat and offers advice on confronting the economic challenges facing the nation.
Robert J. Samuelson, Columnist for "Newsweek" and "The Washington Post." Author of "The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995" and "Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom is (Almost Always) Wrong."
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