rebuilding of our own nation. america must be restored to her proper role in the world. we can do that only through the recovery of confidence in ourselves. cspan.org/thecontenders. now conversation on the global business outlook. the panel included the head of the world bank, the british chancellor, and policymakers in japan and hong kong. the moderator is march 10 wold martin wolfe. i think we can start. it is my great pleasure to moderate this very important session for which i have done for a number of years. i have always enjoyed it enormously. whether the panel has enjoyed it as much as an open question. that is why i am invited back. the issues in front of us are of enormous interest and importance. before i introduce the panelists, not that i feel they need much introduction, i will say briefly where i think where my sense of where we are in this forum. and the issues we are going whatve to address, both might happen to the economy of policy questions. we will