Laughing over Greek financial woes

Cartoonists and comedians have a field day as Greece battles its worst crisis. Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips explains.

Barack Obama, the US President is running out of patience with US bankers, whom he accused of fighting common sense consumer protections. In a meeting on Monday he urged them to support new legislation to reform Wall Street. And he told them they owed it to the country to help the economy by lending more money to small businesses. It comes after a clearly irritated president said he did not run for office just so he could help out a bunch of fat cat bankers. But does the new legislation go …

While Barak Obama tries to reform the financial system, victims of the crash try to bring US banks to justice.

Leaders of the 20 world’s most powerful countries meet in London to find a way out of the current global financial crisis and help prevent future crises. Will the G20 reach a unified stand on how to kickstart the ailing global economy?

Leaders of the 20 world’s most powerful countries meet in London to find a way out of the current global financial crisis and help prevent future crises. Will the G20 reach a unified stand on how to kickstart the ailing global economy?

A remote Norweigan town is the latest victim of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. Eight communities in the Arctic circle have collectively lost almost 0m after investing the money offshore. Hamish MacDonald reports from Narvik.

A special inside Story show from Kuala Lumpur where we examine how the financial turmoil on Wall Street has affected Asian markets and economies.

Gulf markets were nursing losses of about 17 percent each last week, wiping out most of the years gains. This leads us to the central question: are the Gulf States in fact sheltered from the global financial meltdown?

Financial crisis leaves Iran untouched – 08 Oct 2008

Iran is one of the few countries in the world that will remain immune from a worldwide financial downturn, despite having economic problems of its own. Al Jazeera’s Alireza Ronaghi reports from Tehran where the people are shielding from the global economic crisis.

Riz Khan talks to Supachai Panitchpakdi, one of Asia’s leading financial minds.

  
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