Rescue me: can the economy avoid the worst?

When a day trader in London admits that he dreams of financial meltdown, it touches a raw nerve around the world. François Picard's panel reflects on the lack of financial reform since the crisis broke out in 2008.

Vivienne WALT, Contributor to Time Magazine
Stefan de VRIES, Paris Correspondent, RTL4
John Rick MACARTHUR , Publisher, Harper's Magazine and Columnist for the Providence Journal
Harold HYMAN, Foreign editor, BFM-TV.

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Produced by Christopher Davis, Mary Colombel, Anelise Borges

François PICARD

Presenter

30/07/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - Friday, July, 30th (part 1)

David Cameron takes his own version of the straight talk express to Turkey and India, how Wikileaks shaped the way journalists reported on Afghanistan this week, and why the French president is going after foreign gypsies. Those are just some of the topics in The World This Week. Joining François Picard were Barbara Guidice of Radio France International, Mark Deen of the Bloomberg news agency, George Kazolias of AITV and Gerry Feehily of presseurop.eu

23/07/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - Friday, July, 23th (part 2)

Mr. Cameron goes to Washington and all they talk about is BP, the more-or-less stressful stress tests of Europe’s banks, and Colombia’s outgoing president not exactly best friends forever with his Venezuelan counterpart… it’s all in The World This Week. Joining François Picard are Liz Alderman of the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek Paris bureau chief Christopher Dickey, Sunday Telegraph columnist Anne-Elizabeth Moutet and freelance reporter Célestine Bohlen.

23/07/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - Friday, July, 23th (part 1)

16/07/2010 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

THE WORLD THIS WEEK - Friday, July, 16th (part 2)

Obama wins on banking but may lose the midterm elections in the fall, Africans on parade in Paris, and the gaps in the tale of Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was tortured. It’s all in the World This Week in partnership with the International Tribune. Joining François Picard is the IHT’s Alison Smale, Nooshabeh Amiri of Iranian language news website roozonline.com, photojournalist Tom Haley of Sipa Press and France 24 Senior Correspondent Melissa Bell.