CNN's Christiane Amanpour interviews Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, about the financial crisis and the global economy.
Brown advocates for a global, cooperative solution to the crisis, exploring how current efforts can have long-lasting benefits.
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Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour is CNN’s chief international correspondent based in London. Amanpour has reported on most crises from the world’s many news hotspots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda and the Balkans.
Her assignments have ranged from exclusive interviews with world leaders to reporting on the human consequences of natural disasters or covering events from the heart of war zones. She has received wide acclaim and numerous awards for her work, particularly for her extensive coverage of conflicts in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East.
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown MP (born 20 February 1951) is a British Labour politician and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Brown assumed office in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party. Before this, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour government from 1997 to 2007 under Blair.
Brown has a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a TV journalist. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1983; first for Dunfermline East and since 2005 for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown advocates for restructuring the World Bank and IMF to better address modern global issues like climate change, energy issues, stability and security.
"It is ridiculous to think that institutions built for the problems of 1945 are ideally suitable for the problems of 2009," he says.
@drew_ritchie: if he really understood global economics, Britain wouldn't have the level of debt we have today. We don't need someone who understand, we need someone who has right ethical and moral values so that state and corporate organizations are regulated and controlled for the good of all. Neither Tories nor Labor have clean conscience, Liberal Democrats are the only ones that have a chance.
Gordon Brown's understanding of the world economy and his progressive vision for it's future together with the global leadership ability he has demostrated on these issues is the reason I will be voting Labour at the next general election.
What is desparetly needed is a new economic PARADIGM. There is one in development called TRANSFINANCIAL ECONOMICS.
http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Transfinancial_Economics