Featured Topic: January 23rd 2008 - World Economics

Our featured topic today is the global economy. Even Google, the seemingly impenetrable market force, has dropped 160 points this week. Combine the looming recession with the Davos convention in Switzerland and the presidential debates, and world economics is on everyones mind.

The featured story of the day comes to us from the Financial Times "The financial turmoil is like an elephant in a dark room." In it, Martin Wolf explains how the world economy got into such trouble, as note by Foreign Policy's blog.

It's a question a lot of people are probably asking - with an increasingly serious tone. And they demand serious journalism to help inform them about what is going on. That's where we can help.

Meanwhile the Davos convention in Switzerland has begun and the real pink elephant in the world economic room, Asia, are both producing some quality journalism.

But we need to find it, together.