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Simon Johnson on China and the U.S. Economy

Arts Jul 14, 2009 1:06 PM EDT

Paul Solman: The second in this week’s series of video exchanges with Simon Johnson of the Peterson Institute of Economics, MIT, and (formerly) the IMF, concerns China. We talked last month, on the occasion of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s visit to Beijing.

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