G-20 meeting

Finance chiefs from the world's 20 industrialized and fastest developing nations will wrestle over how to steady the world economy at a meeting in Paris - but the different paths their countries have taken to recover from the economic crisis make concrete commitments unlikely. French Finance...

The G-20 has a second chance to diffuse exchange-rate tensions Friday and Saturday, when finance ministers and central bank governors meet in South Korea. World leaders failed to resolve the currency issue two weeks ago in Washington.

Putting a united face on a divisive issue, the G-20 leaders meeting in Toronto agreed on Sunday to a schedule for reducing their budget gaps. But the agreement doesn't entail hard deadlines. Rather, it sets up as a goal that the nations will cut their deficits in half by 2013.

People blame the media for all the doom and gloom, and now finally, the media is giving you a break in the form of G-20 coverage. The pictures I've been seeing of world leaders meeting in London -- hugging each other, cheesing for the cameras, laughing like crazy at each others jokes -- makes the...