Ear Normous News Today

World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from aspen, colorado. Today, an extra special program with three, yes, three former secretaries of the treasury. First ill auck to Henne Paulson and Timothy Geithner about the downgradingst u. S. Credit ratings and the struggles the chinese economy. And then robert rubin talks about how to make hard decisions. And what a yellow legal pad has to do with that skill. Finally, david byrne came to fame with his new wave band Talking Heads. Some 40 years ago. I t...

>> when you look at the u.s. economy, it does look like inflation is coming down, unemployment is not going up, we might get that soft landing or are you skeptical? >> i think looking at the long-term, we have ear normous strengths and i would rather do investment here and than any other major economy. now there is an assumption that at some point or another well meet our policy challenges. not terrifically well but reasonably well and even though we have tremendous issues in our political syste...

Afghanistan. kind of a birthplace of the taliban really. and there appear to be groups of fighters that are now getting into parts of the city center. there was also a ear normous prison break in the city yesterday which appeared to have released a thousand criminals. that is going to be causing significant problem for already stretched afghan security forces there. so not good news in kandahar. if it does fall, that would be a seismic moment in the 20-year history of the u.s.-backed government ...